Marjorie Holmes Quotes
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
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I look completely different from how I did in 'Sinbad,' and it's nice to be myself.
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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
