H. L. Mencken Quotes
The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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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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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.
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I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
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My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
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The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.
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He was no respecter of windy theories about inborn racial traits, but there was something to be said for traditions so ancient as to be unconscious and ineradicable.
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The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.
