Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.
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There is a thematic continuity here within Bigelow's work: 'The Hurt Locker' serves up a military equivalent of the thrill-trips that Lenny Nero was hustling in her earlier 'Strange Days.'
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I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
