William Hazlitt Quotes
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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To survive is to win.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
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We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
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Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.
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Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
