William Hazlitt Quotes
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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As far as actors who pop up again and again in Japanese dubs, and because they're really good actors, people like Steve Bloom, not only in 'Cowboy Bebop,' but also he's sort of the de-facto Wolverine. If you're doing an animated Wolverine anything, Marvel usually just goes to Steve first because he's recognized as that voice.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.
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If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.