William James Quotes
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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I love girl power.
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.
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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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Plato … teaches the separation of the human soul from its 'home' in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas.
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Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
