Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
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I play well with everybody.
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I like to go home and get involved in my community.
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Just to get cufflinks on my shirt is a challenge.
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So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
