H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
Yami Gautam -
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
Larry Ellison -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Nathan Myhrvold
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner -
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
Dan Harmon -
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
Naomi Klein -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
Namie Amuro
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence -
I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
Tamara Mellon -
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
Ursula Burns -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard -
Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
Daniel Boulud -
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.
Carl Menger -
I do like to walk a lot. Mostly in New York. When I'm going somewhere, I'd rather just walk there.
Bregje Heinen -
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken