William James Quotes
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
Quotes to Explore
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.
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I believe that over 90 percent of LU students try hard to comply with the behavioral code and are supportive of the school's mission.
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Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.
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A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
