Mark Twain Quotes
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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The only way I coulda gotten out the house was if I had some kind of after-school extracurricular activity — but I wasn’t good at anything.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
