Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
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When our binoculars are focused on the dad as 'deadbeat,' it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
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Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
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Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach a wider audience. That's one of the reasons why I try to give coverage to books written by Latinx writers; too many worthwhile works of literature do not get the kind of coverage they deserve, and I've certainly seen that with respect to books written by writers of color. But there are some wonderful, diverse writers out there who mentor and otherwise support those voices that often have been ignored by much of the mainstream press.
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
