William Hazlitt Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
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I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
