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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Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.
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After all, what bit of money I’ve made has been made among mosquitoes and sand-flies, snakes in the bedroom, long monotonous damp heat, boredom, exasperation with native clerks. Who are these sweet stay-at-homes, sweet well-contents, to try and suck it out of me and feel aggrieved if they can’t have it?
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When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.
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A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.
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I think my pocket presence and my ability to extend plays speak for themselves.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
