William Hazlitt Quotes
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
