Mark Twain Quotes

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• 'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • American
  • Kind
  • Better

• Time is valuable; people are busy.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Help

• The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor never will betray you.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Team
  • Rest

• Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Name
  • Tough

• I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Think
  • Night

• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• Strong women, that's who I really respect.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Respect

• The development of the human mind has practically extinguished all feelings, except a few sporadic kinds, like sound, colors, smells, warmth, etc., which now appear to be disconnected and separate.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Mind

• For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Family
  • Learning

• The idea of viewers getting invested in a series is that you're getting invested in the reality of these characters' lives that, in fact, don't have an ending.

  

  Darren Star
  • Reality

• Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Pretty
  • Blessed

• It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Taken
  • Belong
  • Neglected