Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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My reputation precedes me now.
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The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
