Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
