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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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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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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It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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A person can't help their birth.
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A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.
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It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
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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.
