Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
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Our students are the best investment we can make for our country and our future economic prosperity. It's in our best interest to ensure they're receiving the best education possible and maximizing their potential.
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
