Mark Twain Quotes
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Nature hates calculators.
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There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.
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I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
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Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
