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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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
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The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
