H. L. Mencken Quotes
Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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I was evidence of the theory that books are made out of other books . . . But I did not remain so for long, nor do I believe any potential writer could.
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
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I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
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The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
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Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.
