William Hazlitt Quotes

In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

William Hazlitt

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
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  • Day
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• I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.

  

  Laura Linney
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• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
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• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
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  • Free

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
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• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
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• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

  

  Sam Sheppard
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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

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• To be honest, my usual makeup is the same as in my music video looks.

  

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• Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
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• I really believe that women run the art world.

  

  Marilyn Minter
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• In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Reason
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• In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Feelings