Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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If I could act likeThis was my real life,And not some cage where I've been placed,Well then, I could tell youThe truth like I used toAnd not be afraid of sounding fake.
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Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.
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When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.
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We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.
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The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.
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Experience is necessary for us to grow.
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A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
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The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
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Genius has no brother.
