Mark Twain Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.
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Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
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I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
