William Hazlitt Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
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I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
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You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.
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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.
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As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
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It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
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My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.