William Hazlitt Quotes
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.
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'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'
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Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
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People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
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Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
