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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Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
