Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
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Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
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People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.
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I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
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Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
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So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.
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I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.
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I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
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I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
