Mark Twain Quotes
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
Quotes to Explore
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I'm evangelical.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
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Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
