Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
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Love is more than one thing.
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What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.
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I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
