Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
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I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
