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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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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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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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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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.
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I believe that work is essential to human well-being.
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I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
