William James Quotes

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

William James

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Up
  • Person
  • Too Much

• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Money
  • American
  • America

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Reality
  • Violence
  • Chinese

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Time
  • You
  • More

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • America
  • Knowledge

• Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Generous
  • Financially

• Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  

  Will Ferguson
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Glory

• Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Unity
  • Communism
  • Individualism

• If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

  

  William James
  • Happiness
  • Laughter
  • Laughing