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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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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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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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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I am just an ordinary Catholic.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.
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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
