William James Quotes
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I will run against anybody.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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You have to try, you have to do everything you can.
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The Body of an American, **1919* 1932
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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
