O. Henry Quotes
What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I love owning my masters.
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Boxing is about hunger.
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Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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They came three thousand miles, and died,To keep the Past upon its throne;Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,Their English mother made her moan.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
