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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To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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The new plastic idea thus correctly represents actual aesthetic relationships. To the modern artist, it is a natural consequence of all the plastic ideas of the past. This is particularly true of painting, which is the art least bound to contingencies. The picture can be a pure reflection of life in its deepest essence.
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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
