William Hazlitt Quotes
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
