James Russell Lowell Quotes
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.
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The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
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There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
