William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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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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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
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In Europe and in America, people are now more interested in the cost of quality and in systems of quality-audit. But in Japan, we are keeping very strong interest to improve quality by use of methods which you started....when we improve quality we also improve productivity, just as you told us in 1950 would happen.
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Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
