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 love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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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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Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
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Dates are great because they're a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber.
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There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.
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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.
