James Russell Lowell Quotes

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

James Russell Lowell

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Feel

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Myself

• I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Rock

• I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • Oil
  • Climate Change

• Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Act
  • Many
  • Forming

• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Husband

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• I certainly support civil unions.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Support
  • Certainly
  • Unions

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'

  

  Emily Meade
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Good

• The fashion world is 10,000 times more superficial than the art world. Fashion people are so much crazier than art-world people. They are constantly trying to leech from the art world, but they will never be able to do what we do.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Good
  • Character
  • Luck