Mark Twain Quotes
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Quotes to Explore
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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People are going to say what they want to say.
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
