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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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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It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
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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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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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Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
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I really enjoy working on small films.
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My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it.
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Barça wanted to get rid of him Guardiola. They considered him scrawny, bad defensively and ineffective in the air. What nobody saw was that he had the basic qualities to go far: he had game intelligence, speed in his execution, technique. If I hadn't been at Barcelona, for sure he would have been sold to a Segunda Division club.
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I love the team aspect of filmmaking.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
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Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
