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.William James
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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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Barry Jenkins -
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Any competent actor could have done what I did.
Larry Hovis -
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.
Carlos Ghosn -
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth
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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!
Sabrina Carpenter -
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Rachel Boston -
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.
Dani Shapiro -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
I was always a writer ā 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 ā that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
Nate Torrence -
I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
Taylor Swift -
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo -
Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat
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I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
Joe Pantoliano -
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
T. Boone Pickens -
Iām a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
Angela Davis -
I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.
Val Kilmer -
I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.
Rachel Cohn -
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
William James