Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
