H. L. Mencken Quotes
The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
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Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.
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The EU's single market is a single regulatory regime. Membership of it doesn’t mean that you can sell your products into it: pretty much the whole world can do that. Membership means, rather, that you accept a common set of technical standards, and that you submit yourself to the ultimate jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
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Institutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.
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The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
