O. Henry Quotes
Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.
O. Henry
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
Mandy Patinkin
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
Hailey Gates
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
Frances McDormand
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
Nadia Comaneci
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Damien Hirst
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Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
William James
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A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.
George Schaller
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Busy as a one-armed man with the nettle-rash pasting on wallpaper.
O. Henry
