James Russell Lowell Quotes
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
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I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
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We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.
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Life's a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
