Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
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If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.
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The object before us, to begin with, material production.
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(That is it!)
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Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
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It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
