H. L. Mencken Quotes
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso -
There's a lot more to me than just power.
Canelo Alvarez -
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
Kate Fleetwood -
One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
Madison Smartt Bell -
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand -
I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
Questlove
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
Veronica Roth -
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright -
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
Gary Johnson
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
Pamela Anderson -
My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
Victoria Abril -
I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
Kangana Ranaut -
Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
Pat Buchanan -
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
Ram Charan -
I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
Orhan Pamuk
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
Carlton Cuse -
You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
Adam Driver -
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
Uzo Aduba -
Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
Maureen O'Hara -
Time stays, we go.
H. L. Mencken