Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.
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I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.
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It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions
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Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
