William James Quotes
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
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Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.
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Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
