William Hogarth Quotes
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.
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There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
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Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
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You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
