H. L. Mencken Quotes
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I don't study; I create.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I've been things and seen places.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
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I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 - that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.
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Dear brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy.
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Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
