William James Quotes
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
William James
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
Dambisa Moyo
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
Warren Stephens
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
Usain Bolt
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
Magda Apanowicz
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
Jackie Robinson
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
Fernando Alonso
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Laura Dern
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Natasha Trethewey
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We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
Philip K. Dick
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The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.
David Zucker
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Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me
We in like that, you're dead like Presley
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
A Tribe Called Quest
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
Laura Linney
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
Claire Denis
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There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
William James
