William Hazlitt Quotes
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
Quotes to Explore
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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I am not driven.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
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But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
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I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.
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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
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I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.
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The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....
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My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.
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Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
