William James Quotes
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.
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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
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It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.
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Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
