William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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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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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
