H. L. Mencken Quotes
When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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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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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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That may be one of the qualities a lot of owners have. They thrive on times that are challenging and changing because you have to grasp the big picture.
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When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.
