William James Quotes
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.William James
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
Wayne Newton -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
Hansika Motwani
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones -
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot -
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Rachel Johnson -
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Aaron Stanford -
I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
Garth Brooks -
Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
Foster Friess
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
Hanif Kureishi -
I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
Ian Millar -
I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
Nancy Gibbs -
Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
Karen Morley -
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
Patricia Arquette -
I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
Damian Lewis
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Irena Sendler -
From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.
Elias James Corey -
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. Morgan -
Having a diverse council is necessary in order to make sure that all constituents are represented well.
Aja Brown -
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
William James