Mark Twain Quotes
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
Edgar Wright -
Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
Patrick Ewing -
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde -
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
Gary Hamel -
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.
Randy Quaid -
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.
Kate Reardon
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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.
Hans Bender -
It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
Maggie Hassan -
I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
Laura Bell Bundy -
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.
Ralph Stanley -
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
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.
Pamela Dean
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I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
Taylor Swift -
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
Gale Norton -
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.
Rainbow Rowell -
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.
Karl Marx -
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida -
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
Tavi Gevinson -
At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.
Gary Johnson -
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.
John Backus -
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain