H. L. Mencken Quotes
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
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Because we are all human beings, we are all HIV-eligible.
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The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.
