Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
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Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
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Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
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For what constitutes a child?-Ignorance. What constitutes a child?-Want of instruction; for they are our equals so far as their degree of knowledge permits.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?
