H. L. Mencken Quotes
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.
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I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
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I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
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There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
