H. L. Mencken Quotes
What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
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I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.
