William James Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
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I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.
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I want to see the Doncaster Rovers supporters get the club the success it deserves.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
