Mark Twain Quotes
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg war crime trials, we're doomed to have it repeated.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
