William James Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
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I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
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Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
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As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
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It is your friends who make your world.
