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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
