O. Henry Quotes
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.
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I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
