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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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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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please.
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
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I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could.
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I loved 'Get Out.'
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These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their religion,' are a lower form of animal life, while they, themselves, have no problem whatever accepting Obama as a messiah and, in the past, deifying the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Let's face it, when you kneel in a church, you're accepting that there is something greater and wiser than yourself in the universe. When, on the other hand, you kneel to a left-wing politician, you're merely emulating Monica Lewinsky.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
