H. L. Mencken Quotes
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Hosting is a thankless job.
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I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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I must have a drink of breakfast.
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Every blossom I see reminds me of you
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But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.
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Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.
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The Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...
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How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.
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I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.
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By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds.
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But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
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New Yorkers aren't that friendly, but they're still pretty friendly, and they're hardworking, passionate people.
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Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
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When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
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I never really cared about what I looked like.
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I often conduct interviews in my truck.
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You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
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I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
