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Mark Twain Quotes

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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Pause Right May Word Effective Ever

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Architecture School Wonder Why Write

My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me.

Father Me Free Inspire Artist Way

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

Change Intelligence Adapt Ability

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution.

Constitution Right Guaranteed

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Good Us Other Allow Many Really

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.

Good Music Myself Song Believe Rap

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

Dermot Mulroney

Work Great Quality Luck Try Like

We abstained from having sex until we got married.

Sex Got Married Having Until

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Seth MacFarlane

Happy Me Brain Just Toes Challenged

I feel like I should be a really happy, bubbly person to correspond with my good fortune, but I'm more of a this-could-dry-up-any-minute person who tries to enjoy it while it lasts. And if it does dry up, I'll still have the people I love, and I'll just figure out how to pay rent.

Love Good Happy People Feel Enjoy

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Women Live Challenge Face Retirement

Clothes are like a suit of armour when you're young. I was quite a shy teen, so I wanted to make aggressive statements with the way I looked. I'd say my goth/indie stage was the worst: there was a lot of experimentation involving pink food dye in my fringe.

Food Teen Pink Clothes You Young

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