William James Quotes
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
Irvine Welsh
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
Beau Mirchoff
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
Nate Powell
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
Carice van Houten
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
Nathan Myhrvold
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My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.
Ferdinand Marcos
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
Alyssa Milano
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When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
Ellie Goulding
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“I was not wholly conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within. It was as if I were the activity, and my hands and feet were only experiments for my spirit to work upon.”
Zitkala-Sa
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My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.
Wole Soyinka
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For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.
Decca Aitkenhead
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James