William Hazlitt Quotes
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.William Hazlitt
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
K. D. Lang -
It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
Ian Rush -
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta -
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet -
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
Taslima Nasrin -
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander -
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
Ralph Fiennes -
Paris ain't much of a town.
Babe Ruth -
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
Gary Oldman -
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
Harry Browne
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
Caio Fonseca -
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Viggo Mortensen -
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
Felix Dennis -
I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
Rakul Preet Singh -
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
Yahoo Serious
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Owen D. Young -
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.
Gary Morris -
I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
Bianca Jagger -
Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
William Hazlitt