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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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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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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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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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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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself. It came accidentally.
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No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?
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My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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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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I want to prove that actors are good, not just at working in front of the camera.
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I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.
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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.
