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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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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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.
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My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.
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On the bright side, maybe sending men in dresses into women's bathrooms will reduce number of women in our fighting forces.
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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.
