Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
Daley Thompson
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
Patrick Kane
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. Skinner
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Isaac Barrow
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
Adam Grant
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
T. C. Boyle
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
Abraham Verghese
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
Adam Jones
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. Pritzker
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
Gabriel Iglesias
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A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.
John Hughes
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But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.
Edward Bellamy
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
Raj Kapoor
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I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
Jimmy Iovine
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Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton