William Hazlitt Quotes

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

William Hazlitt

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Mind
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Society
  • Best
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Playing
  • Train
  • Details

• The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Passion
  • Animal
  • Human

• Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Apple

• History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • History
  • Present
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Writing
  • School
  • Money

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.

  

  Karl Marx

• 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.

  

  James Daly
  • Business
  • Air

• 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.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Music
  • Son

• Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

  

  Danny Huston
  • Family
  • Business

• We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

  

  Maria Shriver

• 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.

  

  Ben Vereen
  • Good
  • Bad

• The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship
  • Expression
  • Would Be

• I think it's understandable that when questions are raised, people maybe are thinking about them and wondering about them, but I have every confidence that during the course of this campaign, people are going to know who will fight for them, who will be there when they need them, and that's the kind of person I am and that's what I will do, not only in a campaign but as president.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Questions
  • Campaign

• Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

  

  Morgan Fairchild
  • Opportunity
  • Growing
  • Texas

• Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • School
  • Dad
  • Fool

• Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

  

  William Hazlitt
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  • Views
  • Disrespect