William Hazlitt Quotes
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
Quotes to Explore
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
