Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
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The turban is an inextricable part of the Sikh identity. Sikhs say you may take off their head but not the turban.
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The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.
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The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.
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In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
