Mark Twain Quotes
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
Usain Bolt -
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
M. J. Hyland -
I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
Tamsin Egerton -
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
Calvin Johnson -
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Kate Winslet -
Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
Dakota Fanning -
Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
Rachel Sklar
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
Hannibal Buress -
I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
Aaron Klug -
In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
Victor Pinchuk -
I would love to do something with Coldplay.
Natasha Bedingfield -
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Rahm Emanuel
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Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.
Cynthia Heimel -
Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.
Qiu Jin -
I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain