H. L. Mencken Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
