William Hazlitt Quotes
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
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I was a tomboy.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry about whether it's made for men or women. Listen, we all like to put mum's clothes on sometimes. What's important is that it feels right for you.
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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
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your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
