Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Hopefully I won't be 35 still playing a 16-year-old.
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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
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I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.
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I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
