Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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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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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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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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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, 'You know what? I know my dad's songs...'
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Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.
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It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
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The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
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I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?
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But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.
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Poverty has strange bedfellows.
