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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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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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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According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,' the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: 'Radiation exposure can damage living cells, causing death in some of them and modifying others.'
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I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.
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Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.
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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
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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.
