William James Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
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Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
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I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
