Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
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It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.
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Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient.
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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
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Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
