Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
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I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.
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31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash.
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My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog.
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Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
