H. L. Mencken Quotes
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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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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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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I love books.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.
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In terms of my personal spirituality and everything else, it's ever-evolving. I have a desire to want more out of the universe. But the older I get, the further I get from any specifics about that.
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I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.
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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
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The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
