H. L. Mencken Quotes
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
