Mark Twain Quotes
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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moot issue is that we should talk about is not just lessons in leadership or what the leaders need to do today but what can India do to bring those leaders back to India, so India itself can become an even more powerful economy going forward.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.
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There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
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I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
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Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
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It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.
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This poor little one-horse town.
