William Hazlitt Quotes
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal.
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I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
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I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
