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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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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America is the greatest country in the whole world.
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Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.
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My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
