Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
