William James Quotes
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
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We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.
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So long as there are men, there will be wars.
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Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
