O. Henry Quotes
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
