H. L. Mencken Quotes
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.H. L. Mencken
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
Frances Fisher -
There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
Jack Williamson -
I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
Zach LaVine
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes -
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
Malala Yousafzai -
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey -
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Victor LaValle -
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung -
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Jackie Mason -
I don't read books.
Hansika Motwani -
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
Ted Sarandos -
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Edward Fitzgerald -
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
Ellen Barkin -
Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck -
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
Andrea Arnold -
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken