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?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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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• 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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• 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.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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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.

  

  Kat Graham
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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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Heart
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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.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
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• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

  

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• It is not the end. There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death. You have failed.

  

  Neil Gaiman
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• Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

  

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• A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

  

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• I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

  

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• The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.

  

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• When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

  

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• I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

  

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• Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

  

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• I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

  

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• Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

  

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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?

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • People
  • Truth
  • Praise