William James Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
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Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
