H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
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Dan Loeb has become a billionaire searching out value in financial markets.
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In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
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I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
