Mark Twain Quotes
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
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It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
