H. L. Mencken Quotes
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
Adam Ostrow
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
Natalie Gulbis
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
Carlos Alazraqui
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
Flavor Flav
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson
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I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
James Edward Olliges Jr.
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Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, Hope, and Longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath, - naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life!
Margaret Fuller
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
Olivia Wilde
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The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
Helen Keller
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I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
