William James Quotes
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.
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People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.
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I'd like to be a piano player.
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I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
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Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
