William James Quotes
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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.
Park Chan-wook -
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.
Mae Jemison -
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.
Edmund Morgan -
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.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes -
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
Kate Smith
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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.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
Nathan Fillion -
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
Madison Smartt Bell -
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Ada Yonath -
I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
Oliver North -
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier
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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.
Immanuel Kant -
You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
Irina Shayk -
I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
Candice Swanepoel -
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.
Patrick Stewart -
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
Van Morrison -
Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!
Candace Kita
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I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.
Pete Gallego -
We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since the first person was banging on drums.
David Shields -
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi -
Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.
Marvin J. Ashton -
The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.
Leon Trotsky -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James