William James Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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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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You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.
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My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.
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Some people work to have a weekend and so on the weekend they genuinely don't think about anything apart from the fact that they're on their weekend. Some people are like that so maybe some people would be like, "Yeah that'd be great. Take away my anxiety and give me a nice lounge chair." But I would be so not interested in that.
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Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.
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We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
