Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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Sometimes things aren't logical. Sometimes things don't follow timetables.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
