Mark Twain Quotes
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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White for light. White for love. White for forever.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
