William James Quotes
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
Salman Rushdie
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
Rafik Hariri
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
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I got to write most of everything I said.
R. Lee Ermey
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
Idris Elba
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
Mamie Gummer
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
Edgar Wright
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
Mandy Patinkin
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke
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I know that this is a cliché by now and I suppose that Prague people are sick and tired of hearing Prague referred to as ‘Magic Prague’, but, you know, I may complain about the tourists, but I am a tourist after all. I'd rather not be, but I am.
John Banville
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'...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'
Tawakkol Karman
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Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.
Kelly Lynch
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'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'
Joe Haldeman
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I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
J. R. Smith
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
William James