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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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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The whole world is a man's birthplace.
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If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
