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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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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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
