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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I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.
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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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Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I love jewellery, but it's something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time.
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Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
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You know, I had no trouble with the girls.
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
