William James Quotes
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.
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I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
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But I know a lie when I hear one.
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
