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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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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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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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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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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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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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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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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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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The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.
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I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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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.
