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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An individualist is a man who says: 'I'll not run anyone's life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'
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You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
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My only fear is the unknown.
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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.
