James Russell Lowell Quotes
New times demand new measures and new men;The world advances, and in time outgrowsThe laws which in our father's times were best;And doubtless, after us, some purer schemeWill be shaped out by wiser men than we,Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
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Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
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Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
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New times demand new measures and new men;The world advances, and in time outgrowsThe laws which in our father's times were best;And doubtless, after us, some purer schemeWill be shaped out by wiser men than we,Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
