William Hazlitt Quotes
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.
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I was really fat in school.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
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Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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At times, I can be a slave to money.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
