William James Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.
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When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
