Mark Twain Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.
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There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
