H. L. Mencken Quotes
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
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Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
