Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I love taking chances.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
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The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
