Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

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• I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Home
  • Energy
  • New York

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Company
  • Believed

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Small
  • College

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

  

  Walter Brennan
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Never

• I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Real
  • Green
  • Down

• I've laid my friends bare.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Friends
  • Laid
  • Bare

• During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Light
  • Everyday
  • Blue

• Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Helping
  • Leaving
  • Birth

• I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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  • Man
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