James Russell Lowell Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.
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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
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Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'
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Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
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She doeth little kindnessesWhich most leave undone, or despise.
