William James Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate.
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I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?
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Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.
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Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
