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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Thom Browne, Michael Bastian... all these people that I love, when I finally get to meet them, I'm like, 'You're a cool guy!'
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Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.
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They looked at a number of scenarios for operating the plant, and they could not come up with anything that would meet the air-quality requirement. We don't know how long that will take.
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
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Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
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The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
