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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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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• I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

  

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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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• It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."

  

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• As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

  

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• Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

  

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• They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

  

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• The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

  

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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.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Purpose
  • Talent
  • Achieve