Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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God blesses him who helps his brother.
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Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
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Strong women, that's who I really respect.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.
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You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That's just not viable.
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[The baby] will come with me, that’s the plan
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I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.
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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
