Mark Twain Quotes

Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.
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But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.