H. L. Mencken Quotes
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.H. L. Mencken
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Dale T. Mortensen -
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
Ja Rule -
All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
Ferguson Jenkins
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
Jack Germond -
I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr. -
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
Samantha Bee -
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman -
It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
Gary Johnson -
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
I. King Jordan -
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
Gay Talese -
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
Mandy Patinkin -
Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
Hans Hofmann
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A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
Martin Heidegger -
God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.
Eugene Mirman -
You should have the opportunity to be more than one person with different people because you have that within you. It's not like you're faking it. If everyone knows you so well and can always get a hold of you, then you're stuck to this thing that people think you are. You should have the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Because you do. Naturally.
Kristen Stewart -
I think just having smooth skin is so great because when you get your summer tan, you don't have to do anything. It's just soft and smooth.
Gigi Hadid -
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.
H. L. Mencken