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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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
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Why didn’t you say that’s what you were planning in the first place?” Vaughn smiled. “Because, Doctor, when they make you a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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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.
