William Hazlitt Quotes
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.William Hazlitt
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Ad Reinhardt -
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard -
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
Samantha Power -
I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
Carine Roitfeld
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I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.
Sada Thompson -
I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
Garth Brooks -
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Youssou N'Dour -
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay -
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne -
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
Cam Newton -
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde -
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
Natalie Massenet -
I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
Idris Elba -
Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
Antonio Porchia
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Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Blaise Pascal -
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
Aristotle -
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade in Indian slaves as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
Bartolomé de las Casas -
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.
Charles Galton Darwin -
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
William Hazlitt