William James Quotes
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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Life is earnest, art is gay.
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Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
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I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.
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When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family.
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I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
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To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
