Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
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No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
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I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.
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I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
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Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
