Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• 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.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Know
  • Child
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• 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.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• 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.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
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  • Enemy

• 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.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Business
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
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  • New York
  • Paris

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Documentary

• 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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
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• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• I don't eat any red meat.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Small
  • Single

• Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

  

  Kajol
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• I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.

  

  David Tang
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  • Women

• I am very chill and comfortable in my own skin, and because of this, I believe it is exactly what is needed when you are with a strong woman. My wife is no shrinking violet in her own right. As a result, you have to know when to push, when to pull, when to let it go, and when to stand firm.

  

  Jason Winston George
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Wife

• ...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • World
  • Technology
  • Military

• The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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