Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.
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Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
