Twins Quotes - Page 21

• Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Cities, Towers, Culture

  Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs

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• Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Twin Sister, Foolishness

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• ... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.

  Lester Bangs

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

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• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

  Hamish Bowles

  Memories, Oil, Childhood

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• "The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Said

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.156

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• But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heart, Want, Force

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems II: Poems Selected & New 1976-1986”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

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• Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

  Jim Rohn

  Want, Becoming, Ifs

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• They found a cave once lived in by Osama bin Laden and the only thing in the cave were some boxer undershorts, and macaroni. I'm telling you, you add an old stack of Playboys, this could be my place. It's like I have a twin.

  David Letterman

  Add, Caves, Boxers

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• I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner - and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers [...] a miracle from God.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Real, Fall, Long

  "Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God'" by Vivian Paulsen, edition.cnn.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.

  Alice Domurat Dreger

  Sex, Space, Romance

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• [Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.

  Arthur Caplan

  Running, Different, Cloning

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• Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Karma, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

  Josh Billings

  Envy, Rivalry

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• I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.

  Delmon Young

  Baseball, Stupid, Responsibility

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• I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

  Justin Broadrick

  Years, People, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house.

  Mark Duplass

  Wife, House, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

  Neil Gaiman

  Optimism, World, Force

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• Sex after one child shows down. After twins... ooh... I'll tell you what it is for us. I'll share it with you. Every three months. We don't plan it that way. That's just how it works out. It's the weirdest thing. You know what I do? Every time I have sex, the next day I pay my estimated tax. My quarterlies are due. If it's oral sex, I renew my driver's license.

  Ray Romano

  Sex, Children, Next Day

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• I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.

  Nicolas Cage

  Brother, Cutting, Tennis

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• A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said "her brothers got a moustache!"

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Girlfriend, Brother

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• An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Husband, Humor

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• A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Brother, Humor

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• I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.

  Tom Peters

  Sorry, Business, Years

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

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