Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
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I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
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When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.
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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
