Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Sam Childers
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
Gary Cole
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
Gary Wolf
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
Warren Littlefield
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
Vikram Patel
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I have reservations about everything I do.
Larry David
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
Taye Diggs
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
Wendy Davis
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
Ze Frank
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
Damon Hill
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
Zendaya
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I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
Jack Falahee
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
Charlie Hunnam
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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
Matthew Desmond
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Any free meal is a good meal, you know?
Joe Sakic
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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
Kenneth Noland
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton