Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
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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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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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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
