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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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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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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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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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.
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We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.
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I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
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The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
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We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.
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Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
