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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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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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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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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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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It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.
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Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.
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The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?
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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.
