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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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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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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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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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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Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
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My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.
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When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.
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I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.
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For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
