Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
Larry David -
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten -
I no longer limit myself.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
Pankaj Mishra -
There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
Dana Carvey
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
Nargis Fakhri -
I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
Olivia Thirlby -
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Harrison Ford -
My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
Sam Bradford -
A kid copies what is good. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I was looking through a knothole, and I said, 'Geez, does that guy look good!' And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever.
Ted Williams
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
Elizabeth Berg -
My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
Franklin Knight Lane -
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.
Lee Westwood -
I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.
David Wain -
I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
Phillip Noyce
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My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
Mahershala Ali -
Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.
Wallace Stevens -
You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.
Darin Strauss -
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns -
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton