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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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935

Topics

Best Men Advice Elders Young Books

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

People Moving American Look Party

When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

Time People Small Think Coincidence

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

John Catsimatidis

New York New Street Poor Up Side

My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing.

Performance Artist Seeing Become Old

Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

Respect Responsibility Law Believe

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Think Feel Serious Actor Matter

The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.

Crazy Feet You Body Place Your Body

For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You've got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.

Good Beauty Live History Art Food

'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'

Father God Small Things Small Say

Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.

Travis Bradberry

Mistakes People Perfect Nobody Even

The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is there at every moment, protecting the revolution and protecting France, and he rises to the equivalent of a four-star general.

Moment Revolution Black Group Out

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Alone Great Doing Moments Nothing

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