James Russell Lowell Quotes
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
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When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.
