Jack Lowden Quotes
I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.
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Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
