Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.
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Fashion starts with fashionable people.
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I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
