Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Opportunities
  • White

• The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Future
  • You
  • Employer

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Believe
  • High
  • Law

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien
  • Christian
  • Unity

• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Time
  • Organization

• Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

  

  Billy Wilder

• It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • World
  • Important

• I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

  

  Lillie Langtry

• The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

  

  Phil Mickelson
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Professional

• One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

  

  Amy Ryan
  • Great
  • Job
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• In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Job

• I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies.

  

  Jourdan Dunn
  • Jewelry
  • Hats
  • Snap

• Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Up
  • Joy

• Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum.... They seem to have an un-argue-out-able position, as is the manner of sophists, but this is no guarantee that they are right.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Right
  • Thinkers
  • Pendulum

• Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

  

  James Altucher
  • Different

• If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.

  

  Michael Gudinski
  • Life
  • Job
  • Enjoy

• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  

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