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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It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
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...it seems to be a law of the human constitution that those that deserve shall not have, and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having. It is a sufficiently crazy arrangement, it seems to me.
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
