O. Henry Quotes
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.
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I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.
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On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
