William James Quotes
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
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The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.
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The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
