Ernest Holmes Quotes
Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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I'm not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can't imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it's my home. I'm really glad I grew up there.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.
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Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.
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Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
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My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
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Puerto Rico still has the wherewithal to be a tourist destination.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.
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The Farmer will never be happy again;He carries his heart in his boots;For either the rain is destroying his grainOr the drought is destroying his roots.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.
