William James Quotes
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!
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I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
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We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
