William James Quotes
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
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Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
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I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
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The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
