James Russell Lowell Quotes
They are slaves who fear to speakFor the fallen and the weak;They are slaves who will not chooseHatred, scoffing, and abuse,Rather than in silence shrinkFrom the truth they needs must think;They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it.
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They are slaves who fear to speakFor the fallen and the weak;They are slaves who will not chooseHatred, scoffing, and abuse,Rather than in silence shrinkFrom the truth they needs must think;They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.
