James Russell Lowell Quotes
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
Quotes to Explore
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.
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I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
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He didn't believe in psychiatrists, he said. But actually he did believe in them, so much that he was afraid of them.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
