James Russell Lowell Quotes
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes to Explore
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
I. M. Pei
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
Damian Lewis
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley
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My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
Hakeem Jeffries
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How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
Pat Buchanan
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In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'
Naomi Wolf
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
Adam Cohen
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I've never really fit in anywhere.
Taylor Momsen
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
Malcolm Mclaren
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I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
Kate Moss
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The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
Gabrielle Roy
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I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.
Marian McPartland
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A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So, as pithy as it sounds to say 'It's all about the people,' I only invest when I think I have found the right team for the right business.
Chris Sacca
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Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
Gabriel Byrne
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Ray Bradbury
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
