William James Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd -
I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
Hannah Simone -
Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
Foster Friess -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes -
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco -
The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Self-doubt kills talent.
Edie McClurg -
I'm not a sun person.
Laura Prepon -
I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
Kate McKinnon -
I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs -
Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
G. Hannelius
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
Ted Cruz -
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian -
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
Wayne Coyne -
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
William Francis Buckley -
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Ian Mckellen -
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
Paul Theroux -
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
William James