H. L. Mencken Quotes
One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.H. L. Mencken
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
Rachel Zoe -
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles -
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann -
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty -
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
Gabe Newell
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso -
I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
Maeve Binchy -
I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
Jackie Earle Haley -
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith -
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
Kate Beckinsale
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I have a dark sense of humor.
Olivia Munn -
I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
Jackie Evancho -
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
Daniel Bruhl -
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
Rae Carson -
Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
Ed Royce -
I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein
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Iusque datum sceleri.
Lucan -
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
Jo Ann Emerson -
My job is to make sure we keep performing.
Mats Sundin -
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William Gibson -
I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.
Natalie Dormer -
One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
H. L. Mencken