James Russell Lowell Quotes
God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.
Quotes to Explore
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I eat next to nothing.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.
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One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.
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I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
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It's one-of-a-kind, because some people would die to have the family I do.
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He didn't even take up golf because it would take away time from his family or children or grandchildren. He was completely selfless.
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God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.
