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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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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Growing up, I was surrounded by music by the Stones, Carole King, and the Beach Boys. I didn't know who Michael Jackson was till I was about 13.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.
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I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
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I don't have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.
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The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.
