James Russell Lowell Quotes
A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
James Russell Lowell
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
Dakota Fanning
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
G. Hannelius
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
Tamron Hall
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Caleb Cushing
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I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.
Craig Robinson
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I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
Allison Janney
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Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?
Margo Jefferson
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Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
Vandana Shiva
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
Robert Frost
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A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
James Russell Lowell
