William Hazlitt Quotes
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.William Hazlitt
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas -
I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
Ram Charan -
I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
Cameron Diaz
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner -
Midi is my hobby.
J. J. Johnson -
I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
Olga Kurylenko -
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
Candice Swanepoel -
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
Gary Numan -
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
Earl Campbell
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Victoria Woodhull -
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
R. Kelly -
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
Danica McKellar
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The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.
Zach Condon -
I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
Amy Klobuchar -
When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
Blake Shelton -
No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.
Russell Peters -
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt