James Russell Lowell Quotes
’Tain’t by turnin’ out to hack folksYou’re agoin’ to git your right,Nor by lookin’ down on black folksCoz you’re put upon by white;Slavery ain’t o’ nary color,’Tain’t the hide thet makes it wus,All it keers fer in a feller’S jest to make him fill its pus.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
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I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).
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I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.
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’Tain’t by turnin’ out to hack folksYou’re agoin’ to git your right,Nor by lookin’ down on black folksCoz you’re put upon by white;Slavery ain’t o’ nary color,’Tain’t the hide thet makes it wus,All it keers fer in a feller’S jest to make him fill its pus.
