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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What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
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I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!
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'What do I care for the god?' the woman suddenly screamed, catching up her dead child. 'What god is he that takes away my son and leaves me nothing?'
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
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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.
