Mark Twain Quotes
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'
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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
