H. L. Mencken Quotes
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.H. L. Mencken
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
Val Kilmer -
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
Malorie Blackman -
You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
Rand Paul -
I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
Jack Keane -
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
Federica Mogherini
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
Wayne Gretzky -
We are facing extreme volatility.
Carlos Ghosn -
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Caitlin Stasey -
I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
Tamron Hall -
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
Eddie Murphy -
I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
Mamie Gummer -
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
Hari Kunzru -
I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
Nancy Pelosi -
It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.
Randi Weingarten -
When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow.
Margarita Simonyan
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going to react. But I could tell the minute I saw him that he was going to be in my corner.
Don Rickles -
I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.
Priscilla Presley -
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
Martin Scorsese -
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.
H. L. Mencken