Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
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The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
