William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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Typically in a panic, corporate bonds sell off as investors fear weaker growth, tighter financial conditions, or need liquidity.
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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
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By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable
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The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.
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Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.
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Act the part and you will become the part.
