Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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You are part of my story, memory and scenery, thank you.
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I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
