Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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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 learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.
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I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.
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I think the bad-guy roles are fun - there are more of them, and they're written more colorfully.
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When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
