William James Quotes
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I love Keira Knightley. She's had a really versatile career, which I really admire.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
