William James Quotes
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
Eddie Marsan
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
Paddy Considine
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
Parker Posey
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. Novak
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Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.
Louis Sachar
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Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
Emma Thompson
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I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days -- before there is a material risk of a fundamentally unnecessary default by a country like Spain or Italy which would be a financial catastrophe dragging the European banking system and North America with it. So they have to act now.
Willem Buiter
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James