Mark Twain Quotes
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
Imtiaz Ali -
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton U2 -
The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
Wendell Willkie -
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
Dan Shechtman -
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars -
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood -
There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
Mae Jemison -
I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
Taylor Momsen
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
Vikram Seth -
I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
Vanessa Kerry -
Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
Patrick Ness -
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Walt Disney -
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
Ferran Adria -
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
Yoko Ono
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
Carl Sagan -
I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.
N. K. Jemisin -
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
H. P. Lovecraft -
For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.
Jim Jordan -
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
Kurt Masur -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain