William Hazlitt Quotes
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.William Hazlitt
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein -
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
Taylor Momsen -
I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt -
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
Bat for Lashes
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch -
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown -
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
Samantha Barks -
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor Swift -
Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
Flula Borg -
I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
Ina Garten -
I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
Zooey Deschanel -
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
J. Philippe Rushton
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I have always been a workaholic.
Jewel Kilcher -
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
Choa Kok Sui -
My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
Christen Press -
In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
William Hazlitt