William Hazlitt Quotes
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
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The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
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I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model.
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Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
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Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science.
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
