Mark Twain Quotes

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Always
  • Coffee
  • Breakfast

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Bed
  • Truck
  • Farm

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Cancer

• Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Great
  • Art
  • Comedy

• Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Food
  • Traditional
  • Surprising

• If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • End
  • Yourself

• I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Death
  • Just
  • Yes

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Done
  • Doubt
  • Apple

• I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

  

  La India
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Sadness

• Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

  

  James Altucher
  • Time
  • Job
  • History

• Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

  

  David Grann
  • Witty

• All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Songs
  • Album
  • Skeletons

• Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

  

  David Lauren
  • America
  • Fun
  • Popular

• She soars on her own wings.

  

  Socrates
  • Wings
  • Soars

• The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

  

  Mark Twain
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