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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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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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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Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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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 think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
