Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
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Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.
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Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.
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In this business, it is about making an impact.
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When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
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In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
