William James Quotes
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
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Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
