Mark Twain Quotes

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Advice
  • End
  • Medical

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
  • Isolation

• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Work
  • Great
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Important
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Game
  • Star
  • Winning

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

  

  Max Baucus
  • World
  • Real
  • Why

• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Political

• I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Always
  • Possible
  • Stubborn

• 'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Funny

• We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

  

  Mark Twain
  • World