H. L. Mencken Quotes
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I love action movies.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
