Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
Otto Penzler
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
Tariq Ali
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
Tabatha Coffey
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
Gary Coleman
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
Adam Ostrow
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I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.
Tavi Gevinson
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In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
Kate Bush
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
Sam Kean
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
Zaha Hadid
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In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
Felix Frankfurter
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...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.
Anthony Burgess
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I love dance; that's a big part of my life - like, ballet specifically.
Kerris Dorsey
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I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.
Lexa Doig
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A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.
John Edgar Wideman
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When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.
Ashley Madekwe
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I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.
Ellsworth Kelly
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Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton