James Russell Lowell Quotes
The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,And hints at her foregone gentilitiesWith some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,And hints at her foregone gentilitiesWith some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.
