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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Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.
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Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.
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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these,Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
