William James Quotes
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
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I have made more money than I ever thought anybody should ever make. But who cares if you're worth $500 million or $1 billion? That is not what I want to be remembered for, but for giving something back.
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Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way. I can say "No," and nobody's going to be pissed off or breathe down my neck. I can draw the line and take breaks when I want to. I try not to. And getting to develop other artists is something I've always wanted to do.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
