Mark Twain Quotes
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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But, having said that, believe me, as you get older, the parts dry up. They get less and less.
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I think sometimes you need distance to reflect.
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I liked helping my parents, feeling useful, feeling smart.
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You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.
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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
