H. L. Mencken Quotes
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
H. L. Mencken
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
Patrick Ness
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
Abhishek Bachchan
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
Kajol
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
Harald zur Hausen
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
Mahershala Ali
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.
William James
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey
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My mind is just as open as it ever was, professor. But it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstitions.
Garrett Fort
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Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.
Debbie Reynolds
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If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.
H. L. Mencken
