twain that he was obsessed with.avis: explain who she is. >> she was an author thomas but she founded a religion called christian science. at in the last 10 years of his life, he really thought a lot about her and wrote a lot about her. the only person that he wrote a book about. i was looking for a story to direct a film, which i have always been interested in doing. i came on this way of telling a thingsbout america and we are passionate about through these two american -- these two fascinating characters, mark twain and mary baker eddy. it was hard to turn down big movies and i had a lot of things happening at the same time personally as well that made it myficult to just transfer interest into writing and directing. it is easy for some people. for me, it took a long time. they are both difficult, complicated characters. creating the character of mark twain on stage because i love the theater. the sequences in the movie where he is on stage, because that is where he started. he was a newspaper man and got a job as

he does a one-man show about mark twain entitled "citizen twain."compliment any other way. do like congress does. give yourself one. [ laughter ] although, although i'm also embarrassed to say what i think to a person when i get a compliment. i so often feel that they have not gone far enough. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: please welcome to the show, val kilmer! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about. val kilmer. you were one of my -- my favorite actors ever. >> i can't take this. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm so happy you are here. >> i like that clip though. i like that clip though. if you can't get a compliment any other way, do like congress does. give yourself one. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: what -- i love that you are doing this. like what made you get into mark twain and write this? you wrote this for yourself? >> yeah. years ago -- about 10 years ago now, i can make an announcement on your show. >> jimmy: what do you mean? >> about -- i can say that after 10 years of blood, sweat, and tears of writing this screen play

mark twain in some ways was even whittier. in fact, his last manager where the performance of the work went on and became the manager so they have a link. he quarreled in america because they didn't have the power to the right and he was angry about that and was popular in america pity if he was getting no money so he fought with the americans. but then when he went back in 1867, 68, he had a love with the americans and it ended a very, very well. >> host: claire tomalin is the winner of the book award which is what? >> guest: the book award was set up for several decades ago a rather complicated prize with several categories. i first one it with my first book because they set up a special category for the first book since it was very important for me to the it was marvelous. but each year it causes a lot of controversy because they are setting up the best novel against the best biography against the best poetry and is always very difficult to make those choices. i was a judge once. and more recently, i won it for my book on s

business-looking bohemians that oscar wild came across in san francisco and of course the cool summers which mark twain as the coldest winter that i ever saw was the summer that i sent in san francisco. coming from zurich we can certainly identify that. >> i am not here to adorn myself with borrowed plants, however the size difference between the two cities alone and the concerns that go along with it makes that impossible. but i would like to underline a few traits which are entirely not alien to us in zurich. the attractiveness of the tee is the economic location, the innovative spirit and the creative minds, the fact that the city is a renowned center for research and the home of a number of reputed universities or the fact that those cities are home to almost every language in the world. and where we are cap able of having both psycho paths and holding the super bowl. in your case, or building a brand new soccer stadium in ours, we hope so. one of the questions that we have all asked ourselves is how can a city emerge from the crisis? and another is, will the economic success of one part of the pop

. >> that is why it is a silly thing to do because they must have put mark twain down there. >> know, maybe one of your readers suggested. >> i think that he should be in there. this is the list. >> you finished the list with j.k. rowling. >> the list was designed to provoke a response. how can you wind up the blogosphere efficiently and it definitively. first of all i can defend the choice because whenever you think of the books and a generation of kids that thinks she is a great writer -- i'm not one of them, i think she's a great storyteller but whatever you think of the books, they have sold globally to come back to an earlier point on the scale. they sold millions and millions of copies around the world in a way that hasn't been true really ever. it's true for decades. there are some writers that have done very well, but j.k. rowling took the world by storm, and i think she's a very -- what you think of the books? per career is unique and important. >> robert mccrum, it's often been said that a whole generation of kids learn how to read because of the harry potter story. >> my ki

so one of the quotes that one of my favorite quotes around the issue of language is by mark twain who says, "the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." so i think what we all know about language and how language can heal, words can help, and words can also hurt and words can hurt deeply. >> yes. >> so we really just wanted to get the conversation going. we have many roles in our positions, but as a program coordinator to stigma-reduction program, we go around to the community and we do presentations and we just discussion what "stigma" is and each presenter presents the stories about their lives and idell is one of our fabulous peer educators and we talk about the experience, living with mental health challenges and conditions, stigmas we have experienced and the road to wellness. so we really have a lot of conversations about stigma and how stigmatizing language can be. as we all know the definition of "stigma," the one we use it's really a negative belief about a group of people. and i think in the ment

the closest we've ever come to getting exactions on a major development project that is almost equal twain transit and affordable housing and two issues i know are very dear to your heart. i just want to conclude by saying that the recent amendments including language in article 46 of the administrative code was necessary and sufficient and i want to thank city staff for seeing the wisdom of doing that. the language, special language that the city developed that took the place of article 56 was very good for as far as it went, but it took out a very important public notice requirement that's in article 56. we now have it back. we have the best of all worlds. thank you all. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi, my name is joseph flanagan and i truly 100% support cpmc for their work, patience, and with the staff who helps the patients. i myself am a client of cpmc and i have a doctor and i thank very much to cpmc for having the doctor that i have. i will help as much as i can for cpmc. if there comes a time where they need me to help advocate, i will support the hospital. thank you. [speaker n

. >> you pay attention to what your mother and father say, wonderful mark twain thing, they have wordsto pass on. >> what would you think about advice to give someone that's 28. >> two things that wake you in the night almost never happen by the morning. and things that end up getting you are things you never think about, so it is pointless to worry, pointless to think about things, it is the stuff that surprises you, you can't prepare for it. the other thing, get the drugs out of your system before you're 30. >> there are no big deals in life. except for sickness and death, things go away. seem huge one day, six months down the road not that big a deal. take life as it comes, a door will open, things will change, look at "the five." >> bob has a nice philosophy. >> he does. kimberly, a question from william m. what was the toughest casey motion -- case emotionally. >> there are two. they're bad. i don't think i should say. >> you had stressful situations. how did you deal with that after the trial or at night? >> i still think about them, but may be more passionate about the job i was

. >> if you pay to say what your mother and father say is that wonderful mark twain said, when i was didn't think my father didn't know a think. by the time he was 21, he learned a lot. >> what do you think if you had to give some advice to someone who is 28? >> two things. the things that wake you up in the middle of the night almost never happen by the morning. and the things that end up getting you are the things you never think about. so it's pointless to worry and it's pointless to think about things because it's the stuff that surprises you you can't prepare for. the other thing is, get the drugs out of your system before you're 30. >> the other thing is there are really no big deals in life. except for sickness and death, things will go away. it will seem huge one day and six months down the road, they won't seem that big. look at "the five." >> bob has nice philosophy about life. >> kimberly, from william m. what was the toughest case emotionally that you ever had to prosecute? >> two. they're bad. they're all bad. no, they're very bad. >> how did you learn to deal with that?

. >> simon: there were remarkable documents-- letters signed by mark twain, sir isaac newton, charlesckens; a document penned by lorenzo de medici 533 years ago; an epitaph written by benjamin franklin for himself... and he wrote, "lies here food for the worms, yet the work shall not be lost." pretty good stuff. a letter written by john hancock with a real john hancock signature. and for 20th-century buffs, there was the original reading copy of f.d.r.'s 1937 inaugural address-- this one... >> president franklin roosevelt: one-third of a nation, ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished... >> rosenstein: it was a rainy day. in fact, the reading copy of the speech, the document the president read from that day was waterlogged. and you can see that on the document that we seized from mr. landau. >> simon: and landau didn't just steal from historical libraries. he had taken his campaign of kindness all the way to the white house, befriending president clinton's former secretary, betty currie, who made the mistake of inviting landau to her house. landau was pretty good at making friends with pe

though mark twain said history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.ronted today with those situations in politics where politicians choose to demonize entire groups of people. today it's the muslims. there has been great progress in gay rights. it could have been resolved decades ago. >> if you try to find some solace in his suicide, his suicide expedited the end of joe mccarthy. is that fair to say? >> i think it did. while mccarthy may have been on the way down, the fact that one of their own had committed suicide because -- >> and the club knew, the u.s. senate -- >> they knew. lyndon johnson's files are replete with information that provide the road map right to senator mccarthy, senator bridges and senator well kerr's doors. >> the book is "dying for mccarthy's sins." did an incredible job. i enjoyed this book very much. congratulations to you and all your hard work. they'll be more about this book on our website. give you all the information to go find it. up next in our monday gaggle, the race for new jersey's next senator begins. tip of the da

they also published jim smiley and the jumping frog that did a whole lot to promote mark twain's career, and train lived in several places in and around the village in the later 1800s. whitman was also attracted, not just by fellow writers and writers who seemed to like his stuff, although it was app attraction for him, but because already by the 1850s, the village developed this reputation as a place where gay men can be and they lived positive, careful lives, but they breathed easier in grenich village, and there were few places to do that, and walt used to meet guys there. after the civil war, it grows into the arty neighborhood partly because of institutions like nyu starts and immediately starts making its neighbors angry. [laughter] immediately when they built the building. [laughter] one of the founders was samuel f. b morris, from the morris code. he was a portrait painter, down on dc on commission to paint when he heard his wife in connecticut was ill. by the time he got there, she had died. he thought there has got to be a faster way to communicate information and news so he,

and we've had a lot of high school dropouts in this country named washington and lincoln and mark twain and will rogers and rosa parks who've made great contributions to this country. and there's something terribly snobbish about washington's credentials if he had gone to an ivy league or had a ph.d. from the university of chicago like paul wolfowitz or like richard pearl. i mean, that is -- >> he had to attack chicago. no, i don't attack him for being a high school dropout. i attack him for being a grandiose narcissist. >> is that a felony? >> no. it's a plague around here. (laughter) >> woodruff: we're not going to get personal! >> when you work for an institution-- any institution, a company, a faculty-- you don't get to violate the rules of that institution and decide for your own self what you're going to do in a unilateral way that no one else can reverse. and that's what he did. so he betrayed the trust of the institution. he betrayed what creates a government which is being a civil servant, a servant to a larger cause and not going off on a unilateral thing because it makes you

that is how francis met joseph jefferson and mark twain, and well-known writers of that time.hat is why she got involved in that. she became very supportive of the copyright. i guess we should tell your viewers that the issue of the copyright is a part of the tariff issue. american writers were not able to get royalties if their works were sold abroad. get the effort was was to these international protections for merrick and authors they would be able to get royalties when their works were shoulder -- were sold internationally. >> the major political issues of , the huge debate over the gold standard versus replacing it with something that was based on silver, ward legislation regarding the native american lands\ and assimilation that any kind of legislation dealing with the massive increase of immigration , she is not involved in any of that to any extent. there is one particular story during the first term in 1887. the near fire department asks her to go and come up to be a part of a public event. she writes back saying that she is not going to attend. it is her view of the

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&c&c1 >>> alice brown of southern california can relate to mark twain's quote who said reports of histh were greatry exaggerated. the government has declared brown dead twice. her benefits have been cut off twice by the cal state teacher retirement system and social security. it happened after the government put her on the dead master list. it's almost impossible to remove your name from the list. she said the first time she died she was in the hospital and medicare said it would not pay for it. >> and social security wrote me a letter stating my date of death was 10-31-11. >> brown said she loses her benefits every time this happened. 14,000 people are declared dead every year by the social security agency despite being alive. >>> well exon the new bay bridge, there have been several problems. growing safety concerns have a lot of people calling for delay in the scheduled labor day weekend opening. project managers are doing everything to meet the deadline. >> they are gonna put down two layers of an even poxy land asphalt and the deck will be paved. >> caltrans expected to announce

the pacific northwest to the hudson river, which carries ships through new york and just like mark twainips sail for a more intimate experience and there are also a lot of themed journeys, so you want to find the one that's right for you. >> river cruises carry around 150 passengers, so you avoid the crowds on the megaships. a river cruise costs more than an ocean cruise, but the price often includes your drinks and shore excursions. >> different than a normal ocean cruise. >> nice. so, for more on river cruising, go to cnn.com/travel. >>> would you pay $150,000 bucks to sing happy birthday? the song that you traditionally sing for free? how about with a price tag now? the company that own it is song, they say, says that you could owe that much if you don't pay a fee to them. sounds like a case for our league guys to tackle. water, we take our showers with it. we make our coffee with it. but we rarely tap its true potential and just let it be itself. flowing freely into clean lakes, clear streams and along more fresh water coast line than any other state in the country. come realize wate

i've quoted mark twain before on this floor, and i will probably do so repeatedly again because he captures so many thoughts so succinctly and in this case what he said was "history doesn't always repeat itself, but it usually rhymes." this discussion that we're having here today is nothing new in american history. it's arisen time after time, and it arose in the 1840's and 1850's when indeed a whole political party came up that was designed to keep people out. it was called the no-nothing party. the reason it was called that was people asked the members of the party, well, what do you stand for? and they'd say, well, i don't know anything about that because they didn't really wnts to talk about it. but it was antiforeigner and anti-catholic and it was designed to lock in the ethnic and cultural society as it stood in 1850. abraham lincoln was asked when he was a member of the illinois legislature -- i wish he had been a member of the maine legislature -- he was asked how he felt about the no-nothings and whether he himself was a no-nothing. he said "i am not a no-nothing," lincoln wrote. "

they have all but twain and danville and walnut creek, but a new accident at the ledger can erode thec is a backing up the right here at you had up past al costa. slow from bypass 680 but it will clear out as you get the san ramon and drive up toward danville, but continuing delays here. looking at the bay bridge, a rough ride this morning. we still haven't who lost the back up. 18 to 20 minute commute time almost regardless of your approach. and a san mateo bridge right is clear with no problems or delays. at 12 to 13 minute drive times and the golden gate bridge or ride, still foggy but a small one southbound and northbound. >>darya: 922. we will be back in a couple of minutes. i wouldn't change anything about the last 10 years except what it's done to my hair, so i'm doing something new. new age defy shampoo, conditioner and treatment from pantene. it's a system with pro-vitamins and caffeine. 7 signs of aging hair, like dryness and damage, virtually disappear. to make it act up to 10 years younger. my hair act its age? never. new age defy. hair acts up to 10 years younger. from th

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>> well, mark twain, the american humorist, said it's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble that just ain't true. if you acknowledge your limitations on poor knowledge and you prepare for a variety of scenarios, you're unlikely to maximize if any one occurs, but you'll optimize over all of them and survive. when bruce karsh, my partner and i and the other founders of oaktree, set up the firm 18 years ago, we set forth an investment philosophy which does not stress forecasting, and we buy on the basis of value, but we also try to set up our portfolios to avoid the losers and survive, thrive over a variety of scenarios. >> is it as much a focus on risk mitigation and value, those are sort of what you're looking at? >> very much so. so, we're micro investors. we're not guessing what's going to happen in the macro world tomorrow and try to make money from it. we're micro investors trying to buy the best values we can and the ones we can be most sure about. >> right now what are you most sure about? >> well, we like real estate. i think that real estate, not the best properties i

president, i would quote mark twain, who once cleverly observed "history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." in the context of immigration reform, the promises we hear today sound a lot like those we heard in 1986. but this time, the amnesty will be much bigger. i believe that consequences will be many, undermining the rule of law, failing to secure the border, increasing economic difficulties for american workers and job seekers, eroding our nation's finances, and weakening our competitive position internationally. mr. president, i believe that one of our fundamental responsibilities as lawmakers are to support policies that foster the conditions for job creation and economic prosperity in america. i believe we must remain a welcoming nation, but we must always put americans first. in my judgment, this legislation fails in many corners and it fails most tests. accordingly, i will respectfully but firmly oppose it and i urge my colleagues to do the same. i yield the floor. mr. thune: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president

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