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.
Adam Ferguson
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt
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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.
Zack Greinke
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
Fabrice Luchini
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
Safra A. Catz
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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.
Jack Horner
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I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Harrison Ford
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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.
Campbell Scott
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
Paris Hilton
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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.
Maisie Williams
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
Gail Collins
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
Dan Quinn
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.
Marvin Gaye
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
Sam Worthington
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Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
John Prendergast
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Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.
Bobby Riggs
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I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud.
Sharon Stone
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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.
William James