James Russell Lowell Quotes
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I have a great office.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.
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I can't think of anything more important than a kid being sick and making them laugh and making that whole experience a little easier.
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I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
