Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I do not like going to the dressing room and trying on millions of outfits. I just look at something and hope that it will work. I try it on at home, since I don't like going through the whole process.
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I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
