William James Quotes
The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
Quotes to Explore
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Education is so important.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
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I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.
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Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
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It's nothing that happens overnight. The process is beginning, and we'll be finished by Saturday.
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The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
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The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
