H. L. Mencken Quotes
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
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I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.
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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
