William Hazlitt Quotes
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.
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That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
