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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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.
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I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.
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My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
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My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
