William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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You enter strong and you exit strong, and you're going to be OK.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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There’s no use arguing if you don’t know what you’re arguing about. No use in learning if you don’t know what you’ve learned No use in taking action if you don’t know what you want to achieve.
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Values are goals which behavior strives to realize. Any activity that is oriented towards an end is a value-oriented action. To the ancient Greeks, their culture was guided by an attainment of ‘the good life.’ In the early days of Christianity, the ‘good life’ was shifted from this lifetime into the next. Newtonian science and the modern era brought values under rational scrutiny, and a desire for empirical order. Modern capitalism introduced the value of ‘good’ as more production per capita, and ‘better’ as even more production. There is nothing in the sphere of culture which would exempt us from the realm of values—no facts floating around, ready to be grasped without valuations and expectations.
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What holds attention determines action.
