H. L. Mencken Quotes

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

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• While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

  

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• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

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• Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

  

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