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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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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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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People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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in order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
