William Hazlitt Quotes
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.
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One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.
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My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
