William Hazlitt Quotes
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
Quotes to Explore
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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I have the feeling I’ve been— unpleasant.
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We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over these past two days.
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My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero.
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The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us
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What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it happens on a large scale. Then there's also the killing of baby girls. Female feticide is pretty much middle-class, Indian experts say. This is not happening among the poor; they just have to keep bearing children and hope they live. This casts into doubt the spurious argument that we just have to wait until everyone's middle class and then all of this will sort itself out. Better-off women will have fewer children - but at what cost?
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Honestly, when I'm out there, I really don't even think about them as guys with names. I look at them as numbers.
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As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
