James Russell Lowell Quotes
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.
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Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
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A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
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I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.
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Unkindness is quite a major sin.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
