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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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 have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Warren Spector
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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
Aleksandar Hemon
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It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.
H. Robert Horvitz
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
Albert Bandura
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick
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What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
Thomas Sowell
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt
