Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley -
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Harold Pinter -
I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras -
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Gail Z. Martin -
If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
Kate McKinnon -
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal -
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
Rachel Roy -
To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
Vidya Balan -
The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.
Rahm Emanuel
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
Wendell Pierce -
I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
Carine Roitfeld -
To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.
Zac Brown Band -
Ildefonse said ponderously: 'If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare.'
Jack Vance -
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony de Mello -
'I am the table!'
James Hetfield Metallica
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I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.
Holly Hunter -
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.
Powers Boothe -
I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.
Lynn Nottage -
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
Tahereh Mafi -
The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton