Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
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I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
