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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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
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It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
