Mark Twain Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
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When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.
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It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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Jose Padilha is a wonderful director.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
