Mark Twain Quotes
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
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Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.
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It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
