H. L. Mencken Quotes
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. Mencken
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
Zoe Sugg
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
Olivia Williams
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
Zhang Zhidong
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
Patricia Millett
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
Halle Berry
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien
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There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Dennis Prager
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It is such a crazy idea that maybe something that I wrote or something that I put on a record would affect people at all.
Brett Young
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The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.
Alice Dreger
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People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
Gayle King
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In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. Mencken