Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.
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Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.
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As the man, so his God
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
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There's no financial aspect to stats.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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And there was a soldier with a gun that just caught him in time to kill him before he was continuing his shooting.
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I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.
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Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
