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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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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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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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.
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I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
