William James Quotes
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
