William Hazlitt Quotes
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.
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What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
