H. L. Mencken Quotes
The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.H. L. Mencken
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler -
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
Gary Wolf
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
Ike Skelton -
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama -
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez -
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
Karl Pilkington -
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
Wagner Moura
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale -
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs -
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
Mandy Moore -
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
Dan Butler -
I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
Olivia De Havilland
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Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
Donella Meadows -
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha -
I really try to live my life a little more, in ways I would hold back from previously.
Dylan O'Brien -
You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell -
After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.
Howie Mandel -
The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
H. L. Mencken