Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
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Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.
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Haste is good only in catching fleas.
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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
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Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
