William Hazlitt Quotes
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
