William James Quotes
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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(talking about Marv Albert) Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv, Marv. This is God, what the HELL were you thinking?!?
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Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
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I believe that if each one of us have successful solo careers, it can only help the group's growth. It will allow the fans to see individual talent and make them appreciate us more. After all, we are in this for the long run and have every intention of returning with another album as Aventura.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
