William Hazlitt Quotes
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
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I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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We want to try to have a productive parliament to focus on issues Canadians care about, ... If there is no significant action in the days ahead, we will have to make our choice.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.
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Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
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I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
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What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
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We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.
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Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
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I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well
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I woke up and one of us was crying.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
