H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
Dan Quayle -
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Patricia Schroeder -
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen -
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt -
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
Tariq Ramadan -
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Walker Percy -
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid -
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis -
I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
Abbie Cornish
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
Bahman Ghobadi -
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier -
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Samantha Bee -
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
Abraham Lincoln -
I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
Marat Safin -
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
Maurice Sendak -
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar
R. A. Salvatore -
Bryn ate her bagel in silence, and by the time she was finished, Liam had already neatly packed her overnight bag and loaded it in MacAllister's car. He even included a new dog bed for Mr. French to travel in confort. Lunch was in moducal little boxes. "I think he is Alfred." "Actually, I often wonder if he's Batman.
Rachel Caine -
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken