William James Quotes
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
