H. L. Mencken Quotes
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.H. L. Mencken
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Daniel Craig -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
Laura Trott
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
Bailey Chase -
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
Garik Israelian -
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor -
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
Abigail Washburn -
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
Orson Welles -
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
Omar Epps
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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas -
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken