H. L. Mencken Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
Patrice Motsepe -
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
Rand Paul -
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
R. Kelly -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
Zach Galligan -
I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
Magdalena Frackowiak -
In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
Macy Gray -
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
Flume
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Gail Sheehy -
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
Kary Mullis -
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
Patrick Lencioni -
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
Aaron Swartz
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
Mark Walport -
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
Kenny Chesney -
Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.
John Newcombe -
If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.
Mario Van Peebles -
One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.
Jim Brown -
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken