William Hazlitt Quotes
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
