William James Quotes
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.
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I think that I'd like to try to be a superwoman and have kids and work, so we'll see if I can actually accomplish that.
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One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
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When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.
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Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
