H. L. Mencken Quotes
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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It's those damn critics again.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
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I grew up in a bustling household of women with my mom, granny, and aunts. Seeing all these strong women taking charge of their lives and living it to the fullest was a great inspiration while growing up.
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The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
