Mark Twain Quotes
'We consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
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A version of the old fable about the king's nakedness may be helpful here. Public choice is like the small boy who said that the king really has no clothes. Once he said this, everyone recognized that the king's nakedness had been recognized, but that no-one had really called attention to this fact.
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'We consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound.
