William Hazlitt Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I get really frightened easily.
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I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
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Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.
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Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
