William Hazlitt Quotes

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

William Hazlitt

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

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• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
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• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

  Ja Rule
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• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
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• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  

  Gail Collins
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• Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
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• Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
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• It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Blood
  • Abstract