William James Quotes
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
Park Chan-wook
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
Usher
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
Vince Carter
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
Irwin Thomas
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I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.
Mae Whitman
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
Jacki Weaver
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
Larry Bird
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
Napoleon Hill
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
Kat Edmonson
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
Iain Sinclair
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
Bette Midler
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He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
Paul Auster
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Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
Emily Yoffe
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I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage.
Lady Gaga
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In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
William James