Mark Twain Quotes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
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And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.
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You see, you could never do a sketch like that these days. The audience is too uninformed. I blame the Americans. Nation of obese, violent, pig-ignorant, bible-thumping morons contaminating world culture. That’s why I spend most of my time here in France. … Beautiful, isn’t it? Just look at those olive trees. Interviewer: This is Santa Barbara.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
