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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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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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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I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
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A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word ‘containment’ was used in my ‘X’ article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.
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Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
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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.
