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'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love.
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The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.
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That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
