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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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
