Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
