William James Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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It's nice to be needed.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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I sometimes joke - but the joke is not so wrong - that after my time in East Germany, I could either afford therapy to work through what happened under the Communists or move to New York.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
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Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
