Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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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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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.
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Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.
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Over all the sky-the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
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You are caught, Sentinel.? His voice was rough.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
