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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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
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Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes.
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
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Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.
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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.
