Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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I am an inventor of music.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
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Настоящее произведение искусства делает то, что в сознании воспринимающего уничтожается разделение между ним и художником...
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
