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.Mark Twain
Quotes to Explore
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Beck -
I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos -
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
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.
Randy Johnson -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane
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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.
Nadia Comaneci -
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.
Randy Wayne -
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
Gail Porter -
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.
Edgar Winter -
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk -
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.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
Cam -
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.
Irina Shayk -
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.
Fareed Zakaria -
Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.
Dan Jenkins -
I will never censor myself to please anyone.
Natalia Kills -
A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
Kajol
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I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.
James Meredith -
It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.
Marjorie Liu -
You don't know where life takes you.
Ian McShane -
My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
Jean-Michel Basquiat -
If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.
Peter Greenaway -
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.
Mark Twain