William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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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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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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I can tell you that once upon a time when I was doing public events people would ask me, 'What do you think about the arts?, What do you think of the role of women?, What do you think of men?, What do you think of all of these things?', and now they ask one thing, and that one thing is this, 'Is there hope?'
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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
