O. Henry Quotes
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I want to live a very positive and optimistic life that has a wonderful outlook on the future and the impact that I will have on the world and the people around me.
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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
