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 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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You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.
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The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
