James Russell Lowell Quotes

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.

  

  Flume
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Woman

• At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Power
  • Love Is

• People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • High
  • Myself

• I'm tired of living in a police state.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Police
  • Living

• Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Great
  • I Can
  • Reach

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • School
  • Difference
  • Guilt

• The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • May
  • Nature

• Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Up
  • Money
  • You

• I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Comedy
  • Couple
  • Down

• My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Good

• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

  

  James Russell Lowell
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