William Hazlitt Quotes
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Quotes to Explore
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.
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I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
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In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
