Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
