William Hazlitt Quotes
The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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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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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
