William Hazlitt Quotes

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

William Hazlitt

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• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

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• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

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• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

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• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

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• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

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• I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

  

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• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  

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• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

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• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

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• Art matters.

  

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• The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

  

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• Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.

  

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• Obviously it was shagging. I used to have this Escort van, and I used to f*ck in it all the time in it. One night I was f*cking some girl and a copper shines his torch in through the window. My arse is going up and down and he's going, 'What are you doing in there, sir?' And I'm like, 'What the f*ck do you think I'm doing?

  

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• I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

  

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• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Consciousness
  • Claims