William of Occam Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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My life is my message.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.
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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
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Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
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Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
