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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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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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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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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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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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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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.
