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.
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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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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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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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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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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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Creativity allows people to be effective.
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The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
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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.
