Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
Naomie Harris
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
Bastian Schweinsteiger
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
Irving Babbitt
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He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.
Yukio Mishima
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'Now it seems that Roger has once more taken up with Miss Roswyn. I can’t say that I approve, but he has not troubled to ask my advice.' She heaved a sigh. 'But I am sure that the world will never go precisely to my liking.''Does it for anyone?' asked Bernard Bickel with good-natured cynicism.'Probably not, and I must reconcile myself to the fact.'
Jack Vance
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Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention to his profession. Why do you think I do these incredible feats? To call attention to my profession!
Jack LaLanne
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I myself am part of the youth movement. However, after a long discussion, it appears that many of the youth demands and needs, like access to education, jobs, and equitable growth, have been addressed under different goals and targets and youth enjoy the benefits of everything else in the report.
Tawakkol Karman
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My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..
Marc Chagall
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My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
Kent Beck
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My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'
Cicely Tyson
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I had no fashion sense when I started out.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.
Louis Theroux
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
James Russell Lowell
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Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.
Alan Gerry
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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Eugenio Montale
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Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.
Dominique Pire
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I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.
Markus Zusak
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Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
