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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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.
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You always want to win.
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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.