Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
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I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
