William Hazlitt Quotes
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
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All human progress is preceded by new questions
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Workers in government, the arts, and industry report that the sheer volume of email they receive is overwhelming, taking a huge bite out of their day. We feel obliged to answer our emails, but it seems impossible to do so and get anything else done.
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
