H. L. Mencken Quotes
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.H. L. Mencken
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
Larry Flynt -
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.
Tasha Smith -
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Patrick Chappatte -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
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.
Imelda Staunton
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
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.
Manoj Bhargava -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
Carl Spitteler -
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.
Vanilla Ice -
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi
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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.
J. D. Vance -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
Ada Yonath -
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer -
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
Adam Driver -
All children should have equal opportunities.
Victor Ponta
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Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.
Baron Vaughn -
Throughout the history of communications, we've seen that the country that sets the pace in rolling out each new generation of wireless technology gains an economic edge.
Ajit Pai -
Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.
Krist Novoselic Nirvana -
Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
C. S. Lewis -
I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.
Nelson Algren -
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
H. L. Mencken