William James Quotes
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
