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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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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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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I put my heart in my work.
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
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Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
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I've gotten a lot more disciplined since dating Sue.
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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.
