William James Quotes
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Death should take more care with his paperwork.
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I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he died. So that was really tragic. That put the whole project on the shelf.
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My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.
