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.
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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.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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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.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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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.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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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.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees
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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
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What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
