William James Quotes
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
Quotes to Explore
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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You have to be yourself.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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I believe Randy Orton is one of the greatest of all time.
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I don’t think this dance is suitable for weddings. This is not a formal dance, this is a cheesy dance! But still, I appreciate that.
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If you send out good people into the world, you know you've done something good.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
