Mark Twain Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
Tatiana Maslany -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
Natalie du Toit -
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
T. J. Miller -
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.
Malcolm Wallop -
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.
J. M. Roberts
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez -
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.
Sam Graves -
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.
Iris Chang -
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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Warren Beatty -
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.
Damian Lewis
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
J. Donald Walters -
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.
Mara Liasson -
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.
Sam Jaeger -
We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
Samuel Barber
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
Gabrielle Union -
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
David Antin -
I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.
Bob Newhart -
Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.
Felix Klein -
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain