William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
-
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
-
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
-
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
-
For me, family has always come first.
-
When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
-
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
-
I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
-
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
-
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
-
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
-
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
-
I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
-
I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
-
The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
-
The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
-
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
-
I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
-
I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
-
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture.
-
I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
-
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-
I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
-
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
