Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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The CIA maintains prepackaged stocks of foreign weapons for instant shipment anywhere in the world.
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When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'
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God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.
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When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees are brown;And all the sport is stale, lad,And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among:-God grant you find one face there,You loved when all was young.
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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
