William Hazlitt Quotes
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
Quotes to Explore
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
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Politically, China suppresses its people, but because the government allows some freedom in economic matters, business has become the ultimate expression of individuality.
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People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
