William Hazlitt Quotes
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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Bling is good.
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
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I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.
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Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
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Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now. It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.
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I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
