quotes about Twins
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die
-- Adrian Grenier -
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
-- Alice Walker -
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
-- Amanda Palmer -
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I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.
-- Amy Weber -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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Conclusion 2: There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins. ~Signed Tamaki
-- Bisco Hatori -
Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?! The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!
-- Bisco Hatori -
I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
-- Bootsy Collins -
Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.
-- Bryan Swanson -
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I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
-- David Cameron -
love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.
-- David Levithan -
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No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.
-- Donald Kennedy -
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
-- Edward Norton -
I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
-- Eli Roth -
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He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
-- Elsa BarkerSource : Elsa Barker, “He Who Knows Love”
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I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.
-- Emma Roberts -
American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins
-- Eugene Levy -
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Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
-- George D. Prentice -
O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?
-- Harry GrahamSource : 'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Calculating Clara'
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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city
-- Ilya Kaminsky -
If I feel like King King, I'll throw like King King.
-- Jack Morris -
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
-- Jack Nance -
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Anticipation and Hope are born twins.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.
-- Jeanne Phillips -
A threesome with a mother and her two twins.
-- Jeremy Shockey -
My family has loved Minnesota and that was one of the big reasons we decided to come back. For me, family decisions were a big part to coming back to the Twins.
-- Jim ThomeSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name
-- John Cornyn -
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
-- John Hanning SpekeSource : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.19
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He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves
-- John Mallory Asher -
As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible. ... Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.
-- John Nelson Darby -
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There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
-- Josh Billings -
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentine problem of human evolution and its encoiling difficulty of consciousness. But where Darwin clouded the problem with his own naivete, seeing only continuity in evolution, Wallace could not do so.
-- Julian Jaynes -
TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!
-- Keith Barry -
Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.
-- Kim Edwards -
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…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
-- Louisa May Alcott -
I think the amazing thing about Twin Peaks was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
-- Madchen AmickSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
-- Marge Piercy -
Love and hope are twins.
-- Maria Gowen BrooksSource : Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.204
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I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.
-- Mary Tyler Moore -
A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that’s all they know about anything.
-- Mary-Kate Olsen -
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I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.
-- Matthew Gray Gubler -
I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.
-- Maurice GibbSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.
-- Monique Truong -
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
-- Nathaniel HawthorneSource : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.37, Ravenio Books
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I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
-- Norman Lamm -
Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.
-- Paolo Giordano -
Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
-- Paul BrocaSource : Letter, 10 April (1851)
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The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
-- Paul Davies -
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.
-- Peter Straughan -
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-- R. Kelly -
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The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
-- Rachel Hartman -
I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.
-- Rachel Vincent -
Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.
-- Ralph Lawson -
Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
-- Rebecca Hall -
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If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.
-- Rene Preval -
Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.
-- Richard Beymer -
Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.
-- Richard C. Edgley -
You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.
-- Robert Breault -
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Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.
-- Robert K. Greenleaf -
My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.
-- Sara Gilbert -
We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.
-- Sete Gibernau -
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Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
-- Sherilyn Fenn -
Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.
-- Sherri Shepherd -
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
-- Sheryl Lee -
Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!
-- Susan DunlapSource : Susan Dunlap (2012). “High Fall”, p.190, Open Road Media
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
-- Taiye Selasi -
True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious; and religion flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of its basis.
-- Thomas Huxley -
I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.
-- Torii Hunter -
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If I choose to come in this ring and walk over here and stand infront of the bald wonder twins and beat the living crap out of you, I can.
-- Triple H -
Power's twin is responsibility ...
-- Willa GibbsSource : WILLA GIBBS (1954). “THE TWELFTH PHYSICIAN”
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
-- William Dean Howells -
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
-- William Hazlitt -
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Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
-- Witold Gombrowicz -
I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
-- Yo-Yo Ma -
Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.
-- Yogaswami -