William Hazlitt Quotes
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
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Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
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There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
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I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
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In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.
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There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
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I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.
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My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.
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We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.
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Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.
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Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive.
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It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
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What makes evolution a scientific explanation is that it makes testable predictions. You only believe theories when they make non-obvious predictions that are confirmed by scientific evidence.
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I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.
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I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.
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The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
