Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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I'm not saying the N word anymore.
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'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
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The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.
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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
