William Hazlitt Quotes
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
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Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
