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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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points of view. For, of all many-sided subjects, it is the one which has the greatest number of sides.
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No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
