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.

  

  Kate Burton
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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.

  

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

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
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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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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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.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
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• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
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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.

  

  Hans Hofmann
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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.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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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.

  

  Pat Boone
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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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
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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.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
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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.

  

  Frances Wright
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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.

  

  Jack Ma
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• If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
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• Good people can disagree.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.

  

  James McAvoy
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• In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Everyone is anticipating the growth and attraction of this market.

  

  David Joyce
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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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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