O. Henry Quotes
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!
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God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
