William James Quotes
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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I remember seeing 'Falsettos' on the Tonys in '92 and being like, 'What the hell was that show?'
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But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
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If must also be remembered that, unless men are left to their own resources, they do not know what is or what is not possible for them. If Government half a century ago had provided us all with dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators to-day to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
