Mark Twain Quotes
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Quotes to Explore
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
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During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
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I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win.
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Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
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We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
