H. L. Mencken Quotes
It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.H. L. Mencken
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
Garry Marshall -
I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
Uday Kotak -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
Kate Smith -
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville -
I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
Paris Hilton
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
Ikue Mori -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
Nat Wolff -
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
Manuel Puig
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis -
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer -
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. Barnum -
In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
Salman Rushdie -
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp -
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Ed Case
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.
Zachary Levi -
I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
Agnes Obel -
I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
Bruno Tonioli -
There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
Bennett Miller -
It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.
H. L. Mencken