William Hazlitt Quotes
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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Most people treat IRA contributions like they're paying a bill. They should think about it as paying themselves.
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When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
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I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.
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You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
