Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
