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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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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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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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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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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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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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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The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
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As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
