William Hazlitt Quotes
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
