William Hazlitt Quotes
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I love my sleep.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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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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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
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Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.
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Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking.
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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
