William Hazlitt Quotes
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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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.
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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.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
