William Hazlitt Quotes
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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I enjoyed the experience. I'm just really ecstatic to come out with a medal.
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On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) 'Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that,' she scoffs. 'How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?'
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.
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A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
