O. Henry Quotes
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
Quotes to Explore
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
