Mark Twain Quotes
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
Salman Rushdie
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
Laura Dern
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
Phillips Brooks
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My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'
Marc Platt
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Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a role model for women across the world. She proved beyond a doubt, with her life and relentless courage, that women can certainly do everything.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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The radio craze will die out in time.
Thomas A. Edison
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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
William Shakespeare
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain