Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.
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I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
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My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.
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A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
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I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
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Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
