William James Quotes
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
Quotes to Explore
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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I really hate to write.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
