Mark Twain Quotes
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs-the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest-you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
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But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
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Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud.
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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs-the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest-you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
