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 -
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 -
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
Laura Moser -
Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
Sam Raimi
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
Karl Malone -
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky -
I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
Vanessa Paradis -
To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
Yami Gautam -
I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.
T. Boone Pickens
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht -
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper -
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson -
I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit.
Carly Patterson -
The strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
Keith Olbermann -
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