William James Quotes
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina -
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
Vincent Cassel -
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Harold Hamm -
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
Laura Carmichael
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
Ted Cruz -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright -
I love doing serious movies for adults.
Carla Gugino -
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
Rachel Griffiths -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann -
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
Earl Campbell -
Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
Randy West -
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
Hanna Rosin -
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
Natasha Trethewey -
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?
Nancy Bird Walton -
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.
Leslie Marmon Silko -
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.
C. S. Lewis -
I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.
ASAP Rocky -
The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
William James