William James Quotes
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher,What if a lovely and unsistered creatureLoved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.
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We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with no cancer. And Dr. Burton didn't selectively give us these. These were "take what you want. Here are the patients I treated." So there was statistical improvement - more so than any cancer institution in the United States could show.
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I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
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During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
