William James Quotes
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.William James
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
Ice T -
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns -
I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
Madison Smartt Bell -
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey -
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
Landon Donovan
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
Hank Stram -
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan -
I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom -
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
Pat Conroy
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
Rachel Platten -
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
Ian MacKaye
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
Jack Dee -
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
Rahm Emanuel -
You shape your own destiny.
Chet Atkins -
Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.
Kenneth Rexroth -
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
William James