William James Quotes
A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.
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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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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
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Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.
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Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.
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The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.
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A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.
