William James Quotes
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
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Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.
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Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
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I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
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The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
