Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I am healthy and happy.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.
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Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
