William Hazlitt Quotes
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Kate Bush
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
Dan Rather
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Ed Greenwood
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
Sammy Sosa
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
Carla Bruni
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
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I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.
Kent Haruf
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I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
Pierce Brosnan
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My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.
Paul Auster
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The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.
William Petty
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
