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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Dani Shapiro -
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.
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 -
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
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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.
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 -
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.
Nancy Kress -
The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
Orson Welles -
To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
Ferdinand Foch
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
Willa Cather -
People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.
Amy Poehler -
I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
K. Flay -
I never even think about the physicality of roles, until honestly I get the gig and I think, 'OK, now what do I have to do in this one?' Like, I approach it thinking more about the character - do I respond to it? Is it something I think I can play? Does it seem like it'll be fun?
Halle Berry -
I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.
Yekaterina Samutsevich -
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