Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.
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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.
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I trained myself to perform on the field.
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India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development.
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When you mix a record that someone else is on, you've got to send it to them. They've got to like the mix, you got to like the mix, the producer's got to like the mix. Too many people are involved!
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
