William James Quotes
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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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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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Meeting people at my fertility doctor's office who are going through the same things I'm going through, I thought, 'Why not share my story?' It's been really emotional.
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There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be.
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Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
