Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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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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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
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There is a $30 bn. opportunity in the cloud.
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It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
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The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
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Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.
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It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.
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Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.
