William James Quotes
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
William James
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
E. L. Doctorow
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
Adam Hasner
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
Gaspard Ulliel
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
Beanie Sigel
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
A.J. Styles
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
J. B. Pritzker
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
Alan Cumming
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What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.
William Ernest Hocking
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My dog Jake ran up to Dolly Parton, and he put his nose up her skirt. We were like, 'Oh my God, don't do that.' I didn't know Dolly, and she said, 'Watch out there little doggie, don't start something you can't finish.'
Dierks Bentley
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So-called gay folks would just as soon kill you as look at you.
Jerry Falwell
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Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.
Olafur Eliasson
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
William James
