Mark Twain Quotes
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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The six types of song that have shaped human nature-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs-I've come to think are obvious...
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We stumbled and fumbled around out there for three quarters.
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Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.
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I think it's better to feel good than to look good.
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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.
