Mark Twain Quotes
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
Vijender Singh
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
J. K. Simmons
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
Tadashi Yanai
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
Laura San Giacomo
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.
Mary Gaitskill
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I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that's so silly of me! We only saw one of his films together, it was with a group of people, and when he kissed Deborah Kerr, I jumped off the couch and I ran up and I slapped the screen. I was so upset that my father was kissing this woman I didn't even know!
Jennifer Grant
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
Patricia Riggen
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In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
Bob Graham
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
