H. L. Mencken Quotes
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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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.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
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I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
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You're never too old to take baby steps.
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I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
