H. L. Mencken Quotes
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali -
I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Damien Hirst -
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman -
We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
Omar Ahmad
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens -
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush -
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Jack Kemp -
I love the hip-hop nation.
Pam Grier -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca -
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
Nate Lowman -
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot -
Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
Every role is a new form of surrender.
Laura Dern
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Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
Michael Faraday -
If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.
Dave Gahan Depeche Mode -
Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.
Rachel Carson -
Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
H. L. Mencken