James Russell Lowell Quotes
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
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I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
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Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.
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'It sees that you are wrong, that you are guided by faith indeed.'The Demie fell silent. His face seemed to stiffen.'Are these not facts?' asked Joaz. 'How do you reconcile them with your faith?The Demie said mildly, 'Facts can never be reconciled with faith.'
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.
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I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
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I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.
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In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.
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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
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This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now.
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I’m not saying it will be easy to let my little girl go, and to know that I’m no longer the first man she’ll turn to.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
