William James Quotes
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
Dan Scanlon
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
Yoko Ono
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Queen Latifah
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
AJ McLean
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
Gary McCord
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
Xavier Dolan
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
Mahesh Babu
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
Dane Cook
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
Paige VanZant
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We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'
Errol White
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This case, involving legal requirements for the content and labeling of meat products such as frankfurters, affords a rare opportunity to explore simultaneously both parts of Bismarck's aphorism that 'No man should see how laws or sausages are made.'
Antonin Scalia
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
Vance Havner
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James
