Ernest Holmes Quotes
You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
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There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
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Do you have no sense of self-preservation?
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I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
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When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
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We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now performs miracles like the gods of old, creating life from blood cells or bacteria, or a spark of metal. But they're perfect creatures and in that way they couldn't be less human. There are things machines will never do, they cannot possess faith, they cannot commune with God. They cannot appreciate beauty, they cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us, they'll be us.
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
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I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.
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You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.
