William Osler Quotes
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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One with the law is a majority.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered.
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There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.
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We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.
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As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
