William Hazlitt Quotes
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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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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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
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Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
