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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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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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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Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.
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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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The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
