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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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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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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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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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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I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
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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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You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
