Mark Twain Quotes
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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'Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.'
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
