H. L. Mencken Quotes
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I think we're realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed was for straight people over the years. Whatever old boundaries there were, which were very real and still have an effect on us, in the way we socialize, I think that's slowly becoming less important.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
