Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
