William James Quotes
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.William James
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
Paloma Picasso -
The student will try to defy the master. Always.
Maggie Q -
As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
Vincent Cassel -
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson -
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Eddie Campbell -
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
Damian Lewis
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
Iris Chang -
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan -
I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
Patricia Polacco -
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz -
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
Fantasia Barrino -
I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
Zubin Mehta -
I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
Haley Bennett -
I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
Victoria Jackson -
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
Camila Alves
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Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.
Jim Lee -
Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.
Fred Brooks -
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.
Joy Harjo -
I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.
Jalen Brunson -
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Sigmund Freud -
General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.
William James