William Hazlitt Quotes
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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Luther could not be ignorant of this mediaeval version. He made judicious use of it, as he did also of old German and Latin hymns. Without such aid he could hardly have finished his New Testament in the short space of three months.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
