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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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 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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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 just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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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.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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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.
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
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I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
