H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
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Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
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I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.
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Dry your tears, have no fears.
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I can understand that people are not happy, but they should not use football to make their demands heard
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It's a public health concern.
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She did make an extraordinary difference for women as I can tell you from my own personal experience. I well remember the sense of awe when I came to Washington, D.C. ... as a senior in college, sitting across the desk from her. Little did I realize that because of the doors that she opened she would make it possible for me to sit one day at her very desk on the floor of the United States Senate.
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The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.
