Mark Twain Quotes
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
Nathaniel Branden
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
Nathaniel Rateliff
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
Sam Childers
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Antonio Porchia
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My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.
Jasper Carrott
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It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.
Grace Martine Tandon
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Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
Lucy Liu
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
