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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

Topics

Talent World Genius Ready Know Open

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.

John C. McGinley

Job New York Back Summer New Run

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

I Am Hat Me Thought Real Everything

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

Myself School Resistance Years Up

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

Money Me You Television Entrepreneur

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Myself Diet Sometimes Had Put

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.

Children American Dream American Want

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Daughter Child People Me Legend

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

Positive Seriously Try Useless Guy

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

Saying Think Seeing Party President

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

Nature Imagination Man Motivation

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

Life God Life Is A Knows Another

'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing people through that and learn a lot of great things. But afterward - that's what I tell a lot of people - it's up to you to represent it as an artist.

Phillip Phillips

Great Experience People Amazing You

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