William James Quotes
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.William James
Quotes to Explore
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige -
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
Sam Crawford -
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
Rachel Tucker -
Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Natalie Dormer -
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe -
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
Randy Houser
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
Gaston Caperton -
Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
J. D. Vance -
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
Ralph Baer -
In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
Ram Dass -
'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
G-Eazy -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin -
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
Gabrielle Aplin -
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
Haile Gebrselassie -
People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler -
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
Aaron Johnson
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You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.
Jennifer Esposito -
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
Immanuel Kant -
You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.
John Kricfalusi -
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
William James