H. L. Mencken Quotes
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.
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A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
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I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
