William Hazlitt Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.
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There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
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Between pets, comedy and toys, I try to surround myself with as much fun stuff as I can. That's how I pick projects. It's about whether I'm going to enjoy myself, enjoy the other actors, and enjoy the other people that I'm working with.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
