H. L. Mencken Quotes
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
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Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others.
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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
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I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
