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'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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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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One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
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Entrepreneurs should never work with big corporations.
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Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
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Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
