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.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
Idris Elba
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
Kate Reardon
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
Maisie Williams
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
Kapil Sibal
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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
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Nancy Johnson
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Malin Akerman
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
Sally Kirkland
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Frances McDormand
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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
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The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.
W. H. Auden
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia
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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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My mother did what all great leaders do: She sparked the growth of future leaders.
Marillyn Hewson
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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
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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
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At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.
John Ridley
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
Yann Martel
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But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
John Lloyd Young
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Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
Clayton Christensen
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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