H. L. Mencken Quotes

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  

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• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

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• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
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• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

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• I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

  

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• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

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• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
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• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.

  

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• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
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• In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

  

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• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

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• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

  

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• The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

  

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• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

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• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

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• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  

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• I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.

  

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• I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

  

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• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.

  

  John Heywood

• The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

  

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