James Russell Lowell Quotes
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff.
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All three of the leaders looked like they were surprised to be asked about housing. And really none of them had anything interesting to say. And so this is something we need to push hard on to ensure that they understand that our housing crisis is really a major economic issue. It's not a social issue; it's an economic issue.
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Actions lie louder than words.
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I love working hard; I think people know that.
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I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
