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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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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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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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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...and then he and Roo pushed each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Roo accidentally knocked over one on purpose, and Kanga said, 'Now then, run along.'
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If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.
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I'm not cut out for politics.
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I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.
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Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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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.
