Mark Twain Quotes
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
Oren Peli
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
Rahm Emanuel
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
W. Edwards Deming
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
Balthazar Getty
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
Taylor Swift
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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
Andrzej Wajda
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You'd be surprised at how many times I'd hit the ball, and the hair would go straight into my eyes. That's why, even when I play indoors, I wear a visor, because it stops that, and I'll apply a lot of gel and hairspray to keep it tight.
Ana Ivanovic
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.
James Douglas
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain
