Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.
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I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.
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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
