Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."
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My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
