William Hazlitt Quotes
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.William Hazlitt
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
Nancy Gibbs -
It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
Gabby Douglas -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
Tahar Rahim -
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison -
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
T. J. Miller
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I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
Warren Littlefield -
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
Abby Wambach -
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
Orson F. Whitney -
Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon -
From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
Omar Bongo
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
Taye Diggs -
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
Tavis Smiley -
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
Fran Drescher -
I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
Xavier Niel -
The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
Pamela Meyer
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It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
Barry Sternlicht -
It's all about sound. It's that simple.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck -
You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
Jonathan Van Ness -
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
William Hazlitt