Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
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Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
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I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
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I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
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I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.
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From a professional standpoint, our transformation of the labor landscape at scale through technology with Levo is the highest and best direction of my energy.
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I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world.
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She was the best business partner any man ever had.
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That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
