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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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
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Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.
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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.
