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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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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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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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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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
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It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
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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.
