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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I am passionate about human rights.
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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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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.
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I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
