James Russell Lowell Quotes
There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
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Quien se queda mucho consigo mismo, se envilece.
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
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I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.
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I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
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Different strokes, for different folks.
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Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
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The people who run the show in the NBA don't know anything about Islam. I think that may also be why some people are against me personally-because I am a Muslim. It's the same way people can be against you because of the color of your skin. They don't look past these things. But it always depends on the individual.
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...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.
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Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?
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I enjoy, always, the feeling of being in front of an audience.
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There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
