H. L. Mencken Quotes
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
H. L. Mencken
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
Rachael Harris
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
J. D. Vance
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
Katha Pollitt
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
Jack Dangermond
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
Tammy Faye Bakker
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
Camryn Manheim
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Barry McCaffrey
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
Dan Scanlon
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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
Viggo Mortensen
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
Xavier Niel
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I guess I did a couple of things when I was a kid, but they weren't really acting - I think I walked down a corridor or something. Then I didn't want to do it at all. I got into it because both my parents were actors and so I went with the flow. Then I said, "I can't handle this, I don't like auditioning." I still hate auditioning, but it's less painful then it was back then.
A Fine Frenzy
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Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.
Bindi Irwin
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Thomas Carlyle
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I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.
Lea Salonga
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It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
E. J. Hughes
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
H. L. Mencken
