William James Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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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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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Scott McAdams is a nice guy, but I don't know that most Alaskans believe that he's electable.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
