William Hazlitt Quotes
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
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I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.
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Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.
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You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
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Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
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To a radical Korean nationalist, the division of the nation, the race, is an intolerable state of affairs. So too is the continued presence of the foreign army that effected that division in the first place.
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Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.
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A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
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I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.
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Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
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Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Quran. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
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We are mortgaging our future.
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Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
