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'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
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Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
