H. L. Mencken Quotes
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.H. L. Mencken
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
Carlos Ghosn -
My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
Canelo Alvarez -
I'm a total people pleaser.
Zoe Sugg -
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg -
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
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But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou -
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
Taylor Hackford -
There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
Edith Widder -
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen -
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides -
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
Ralph Merkle
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead -
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
H. R. McMaster -
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
Zac Efron -
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Ferdinand Porsche
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Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!
William Jacob Holland -
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson -
What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
Cam Newton -
Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.
Mother Teresa -
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
H. L. Mencken