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Mark Twain Quotes

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Genuine Emotion Involuntary

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

Dog Father Character Time Angry

When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Work Love Happiness Decision Pain

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Government Friends Want More Fact

My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.

Work Hard Work Father Mother Value

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

Hope Wish You Heaven Know I Wish

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

Struggle Joy Laughter Interesting

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

Best Small Long Result Achieve Turn

I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because it would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Accounting Accountant Test Never

Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.

People Electricity Transform Just

There is nothing more beautiful than being able to represent my country.

Beautiful Country Nothing More Being

Keeping young people away from Shakespeare is like removing a link to their humanness.

People Young Young People Away Like

In my life, I think I have had more than two hundred significant breakthroughs that exponentially accelerated my life forward. However, each and every one of them was preceded by a breakdown that was not pretty, was often scary, and often felt like something I would not get past.

Life Past Forward Think My Life Two

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