William Hazlitt Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
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Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.
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I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.
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I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
