William James Quotes
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
Quotes to Explore
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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Very ugly things were said about me.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!
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I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.
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I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
