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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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
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It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
