William James Quotes
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
Radha Mitchell
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Iris Chang
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
Harley Quinn Smith
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
Mandy Patinkin
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I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.
John Sayles
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
Nicholas Lemann
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
