Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.
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And I'd like to say this to Sir James Goldsmith.......who has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.
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I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.
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I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
