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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If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
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Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
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What do I know about Mitt Romney? I know that he's a self-serving egomaniac who puts himself first, who has a chip on his shoulder, and thinks that he should be president of the United States.
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Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
