James Russell Lowell Quotes
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Ever since I got back surgery, everything in my life has been about reduction. I've got the lightest backpack I can carry and the lightest MacBook.
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Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
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I remember very vividly - I wrote about it in one of my books - my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
