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.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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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.
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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.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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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.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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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.
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.
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Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.
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As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
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I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
