Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
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I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
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Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!