William Hazlitt Quotes
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
Quotes to Explore
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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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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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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I want to be a major force.
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I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
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To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
