Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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I'm a total foodie.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
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As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
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Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.
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I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
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I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
