Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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Every casting director I've met is a woman.
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'It’s all PR,' said Hutchins. 'If we ever produced a person who was unrelentingly honest, everybody would want him dead.'
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Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
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Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
