Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
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• You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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• It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
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• In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Love
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • You
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• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
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• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Power
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• I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • VIolin
  • Liking

• Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
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  • Study

• My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

  

  Eminem
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• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

  

  Timothy B. Schmit The Eagles
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Songwriting

• The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Experience
  • Philosophy
  • Cryptograph

• Each and every one of us will be confronted by a major challenge in our lives ... We can choose to shut down, retreat into our safety zone and not participate in life, or we can decide to learn from the experience and make a difference to the lives of those around us.

  

  Walter Mikac
  • Experience
  • Lives
  • Zone

• Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Experience
  • Innocence