William Hazlitt Quotes
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
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I get paid to go work with people I've admired since forever, and I get to learn from them? What? I would pay to go sit and be a fly on the wall!
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.
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The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
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People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.
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I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those conversations with me, but they did have conversations about being exceptional black people.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
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The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
