Mark Twain Quotes

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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• I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Chicago
  • Conservative

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Service

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
  • Conservative

• 'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Different
  • Success
  • Goal

• We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Women
  • Love

• I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Run
  • Conservative

• I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Only
  • Canada
  • Miami

• When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Free
  • Discover

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Live
  • Day
  • Retirement

• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Moral
  • Perception

• The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Past

• If you're looking at substance rather than whether it's an R or D after his name, manifestly, if he's our candidate , then Hillary's gonna be our girl, Sean, because she's more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that. … I will campaign for her if it's McCain.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Believe
  • War
  • Conservative

• I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Believe

• I have never given up on men easily.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Up
  • Men

• I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Home
  • Pretty

• To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Business
  • Death
  • Coffee

• All we need is good will, and we have to start working in a way that considers each other's interests [with U.S]. In my view, this is a mandatory condition.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Way
  • Needs
  • Interest

• When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Political
  • President
  • Conservative

• Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Plan
  • Doctor

• The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

  

  Lisa See
  • Life
  • Calling

• I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Extraordinary

• The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Views
  • Conservative
  • Radical