Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
Randy Moss -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
Edmund Phelps -
Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
Quentin Crisp -
The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
C. Wright Mills -
Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
Colin Farrell
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius -
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith -
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
Christopher Eccleston -
Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
Astro Teller -
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
Lynn Davies
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I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
Andy Kindler -
Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.
Deborah K. Ross -
When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
Joanna Scott -
I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.
James Dashner -
Hold on to your dream. Don't let past failures or dire economic forecasts make you a pessimist. Keep your youthful dreams alive and create your own opportunities.
Paul Zane Pilzer -
I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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Some people around you don't mean you good.
Trick Daddy -
Music is geometry in time.
Arthur Honegger -
I don't think of the crown as this glamorous thing. It's this murderous, bejeweled thing, the crown.
Peter Morgan -
I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature. I remember that in arguing with Piet Mondrian in Paris, 1920's, he opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion. I do not think that nature is in natural opposition to art. Art's origins are natural.
Jean Arp -
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Terence McKenna -
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton