H. L. Mencken Quotes
Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity-he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.H. L. Mencken
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters -
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander -
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
Dani Shapiro -
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
Wendy Kopp -
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
Daisy Fuentes -
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra -
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
Lael Brainard -
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook -
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
Kate DiCamillo
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle -
I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones -
The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
Natalie Dormer
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My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.
Billy Eichner -
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.
Martin Filler -
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Willard Gaylin -
Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity-he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.
H. L. Mencken