William James Quotes
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
Dan Hill
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
J. D. Souther
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Lovers should also have their days off.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
Patrick deWitt
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
Pablo Picasso
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The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on those terms rather than 'We gotta just punch it week to week, man.' Now they're like, 'What will happen if someone watches the entire show?'
Patton Oswalt
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
Paddy Considine
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
Flann O'Brien
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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
William James