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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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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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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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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Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
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Love is boundary-less.
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The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.
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The wise man sayth, store is no sore.
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Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole head trip.
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I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
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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.
