William Hazlitt Quotes
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.William Hazlitt
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli -
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
Yves Saint Laurent -
It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
Laura Ramsey
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet -
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
Eddie Campbell -
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi -
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
Tamara Ecclestone -
On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
Karrie Webb -
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs -
I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
Rachel Bilson -
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
Randy Alcorn -
What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
Naomi Wolf
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
FKA twigs -
In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
Zach McGowan -
I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.
Brendan Sexton III -
Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!
Dave Attell -
The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.
D. H. Lawrence -
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
William Hazlitt