Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I love playing characters that have secrets.
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A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
