William Hazlitt Quotes
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
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I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.
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We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it's the Tuesday that's tough that really counts. Sometimes she just needs some flowers or even just that ear. It's the little things that count. It's the regular days of the year that you have to keep your attention on her.
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People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
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I loved talking to Sam Hodges. He was always very interesting, and I felt like I learned something every time I talked to him. I thought he was a fascinating man - maybe tough to work for, but he knew his business. He was extremely intelligent and fun to talk to.
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That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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I have good hope that there is something after death.
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I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
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The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
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He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
