William James Quotes
True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
Quotes to Explore
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I want to be a major force.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.
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'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.
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Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.
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It is very natural for me to say thank you to the goods that support us.
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If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.
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My wife says I can't remember if she has milk in coffee.
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When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
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Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.
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If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.
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So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer
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Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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Stability is not the way of the world.
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True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.
