Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being
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But you are beautiful And you better go show it So go look again You gotta be true to your own If you really wanna go to the top Do you really wanna win Don’t believe in leaving normal Just to satisfy demand ((Beauty in Ugly))
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Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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I think I will tell her to come here, and if her house is damaged, I can go back with her and help with the cleanup. I'm just glad she's not in the Superdome.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
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I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat by beat by beat. It was the most fun I've ever had. And it was great for journalism.
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Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
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The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.
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We never were shaped by anything. The music business as a large behemoth entity told us what we should be, so we went in the other direction. We do what we wanna do, we’re self-confident, we wanna put ideas on the table we feel are important, we wanna play music that’s aggressive and confrontational but at its heart humane. People at the top have told us over the years that we should be doing other things, and you should never be arrogant enough not to listen to people, but after you’ve considered things if you feel it’s not the right thing to do on principle then don’t do it. Live and die by what you think your own band should be, and that’s what we’ve done. We never had ideas above our station, we never had ideas to be the biggest band in the world – we wanted to make a lot of fucking noise, satisfy ourselves and the people that come to see us. We’re high energy, no fucking around.
