William Hazlitt Quotes
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Quotes to Explore
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.
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Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.
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Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
