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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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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'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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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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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
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I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know.
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It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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I'm very scruffy and messy in the way that I am and always have been.
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
