Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
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If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.
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And you know, I always wanted to work in a delicatessen just so that a woman would come in one day and ask me to give her some tongue. And I'd say 'Well, I don't get off 'till four o'clock.' And she'd say 'Well, I don't get off at all. That's why I'm looking for some tongue!'
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The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
