William Hazlitt Quotes
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.
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I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
