Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
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Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.
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Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death type stuff.
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And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.
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There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
