Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
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You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.
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I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
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I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.
