William Hazlitt Quotes
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
