Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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Between the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow .
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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I’m saying that men go from control by their mothers to control by their wives, and this is the horror men’s lives. And feminism refuses to see this.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
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They're trying to destroy my family, so I take great umbrage with that. And defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock.
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When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
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I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
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Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
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And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
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Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
