Mark Twain Quotes
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Quotes to Explore
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
