H. L. Mencken Quotes
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
Walt Mossberg -
There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
Narciso Rodriguez -
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi -
I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
Karan Johar
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail -
Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
Tawni O'Dell -
Leading from behind doesn't work.
Ted Cruz -
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
LaToya London -
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
Ralph Bakshi -
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
Taylor Caldwell
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
Irvine Welsh -
Whether you’re gay, straight, divorced, on drugs, a prostitute… I don’t care. Be who you are and love who you want.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea.
Caprice Crane -
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken