William Hazlitt Quotes
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily.
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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
