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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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

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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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• I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

  

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• People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.

  

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• Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!

  

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• Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

  

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• When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

  

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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