Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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Don't let your dreams be dreams.
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At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
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Did I suffer from depression? Yes, a little, from time to time. Yes. … I'm not as depressed as I was. I get depressed now and then but not very much anymore. … At the height of it it was just God-awful. It was really bad.
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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.
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The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
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There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
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Being in the middle of nature and the woods is my favorite thing
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
