James Russell Lowell Quotes
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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A good leader must be fair.
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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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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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My whole thing with the whole weight situation is - it is what it is. It's never been my identity.
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I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.
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Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
