William Hazlitt Quotes
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

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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.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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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.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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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.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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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.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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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.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.
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I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.
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Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.