William James Quotes
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Quotes to Explore
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
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I love all reality TV - Strictly, 'The X Factor.' I really don't see why people are so snobby about it.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
