Ernest Holmes Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
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We are to look for God in each other and love this God, forgetting all else.
