Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
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I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.
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It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
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You are a big country. You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
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The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.
