James Russell Lowell Quotes
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
