H. L. Mencken Quotes
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
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My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
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You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
