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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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
