Lord Byron Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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I used to say I represented 33% of the strategic reserve of physicists in Congress.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
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Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
