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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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.
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In the future, the best retail sites will know you much better and show you things that are much more relevant.
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STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
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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?
