William Hazlitt Quotes
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
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Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
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Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
