Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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I never thought about being famous.
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Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!
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You can play a role in the shaping of tomorrow's world by asking yourself questions like, 'What kind of world do I want to live in?' and 'What does democracy mean to me?'
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Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.
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'Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
