Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I don't eat red meat.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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Shooting against greenscreen... my choice of filming is, like, I'd rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I'd rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.
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Qui frumentum necessariaque non praeparat, uincitur sine ferro.
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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
