Leigh Hunt Quotes

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Amazing
  • Dark
  • Horse

• If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Company
  • Believed

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Education
  • Really
  • Skills

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • More
  • Relative
  • Skydiving

• I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • First
  • Piano
  • Wrote

• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Best
  • Players

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Years

• Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

  

  David Guetta

• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Philosophical
  • Depends

• Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.

  

  Jay IDK
  • People
  • Different

• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • People
  • Famous