James Russell Lowell Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
Iris Apfel -
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
Zoe Saldana -
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I can only control what I can control.
Ira Glass -
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
Carlos Ghosn -
I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
H. R. McMaster -
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. Abrams -
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty -
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
Larry the Cable Guy -
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
Ira Levin -
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus
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The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies is supposed to have subscribed to the Village Voice for six years in an attempt to find out about life in America's rural areas.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'
L. Frank Baum -
The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall -
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
Steve Erickson
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Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.
Carolyn Mackler -
We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children’s service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother—a working woman, dependent on her help—feared the maid.
Edith Hahn Beer -
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
Pat Robertson -
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell