H. L. Mencken Quotes
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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People have this kind of concept that they can't change but I feel like change is possible. So who you choose to be is who you are and who you will be. I think that you can be enlightened in many different ways and if you choose to be enlightened and are someone who seeks out those things then you can be that and you will be that. If you want to be enlightened you will be enlightened. If you want to be an asshole you will be an asshole. But the greater scope of this statement is if you look at the history of humans, really, nothing has changed.
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We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
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I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
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People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
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I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man.
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
