James Russell Lowell Quotes
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
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I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.
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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
