Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
