James Russell Lowell Quotes
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
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You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
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We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
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I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast. Glentoran were one of the two big Belfast teams, along with Linfield. Any rural team playing them was up against the odds.
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I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
