William Hazlitt Quotes
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.
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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
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If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.
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In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!
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Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.