H. L. Mencken Quotes
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.
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I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.
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I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
