H. L. Mencken Quotes
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
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I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
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I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.
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I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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When you're overseas and on a trip for awhile, it's tough to stay groomed. You miss your routine.
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After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'
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Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.
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I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.
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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
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Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
