James Russell Lowell Quotes
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I'm bad at returning phone calls.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
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When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.
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The Fairie Queene makes cinema out of the west's primary principle: to see is to know; to know is to control. The Spenserian eye cuts, wounds, rapes.
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Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
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I prepare even for a conversation with him - I never want to say too little or too much. And, I never disturb him except when I feel I've done something worthwhile. It's a rare relationship - unconditional and professional.
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I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don't think that's a cocky thing to say because I've worked really hard, and I've never bitten the hand that fed me, and I've always been really respectful.
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When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.
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I don't take any money from my ministry. I'm not on salary. My husband supports me.
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Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'
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And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
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You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
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Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
