William Hazlitt Quotes
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.
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I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes - deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair - and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous - nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent.
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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
