William Osler Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
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I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.
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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.
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We have shown that even in trench warfare it is possible to mystify and mislead the enemy.
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Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.
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The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
