William Hazlitt Quotes
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY.
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I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
