H. L. Mencken Quotes
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.H. L. Mencken
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
L'Wren Scott -
Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
Gabriel Luna -
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan -
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld -
The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
Jack Black -
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Iain Sinclair
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
Eddie Redmayne -
These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
Gale Norton -
Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
Halsey -
I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
J. B. Smoove -
All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
Taissa Farmiga
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
Adam Lamberg -
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
Barbara Deming -
Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon -
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
Zara Phillips -
Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
Rachel Nichols -
I'm not into the attention thing so much.
Flume
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I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
Lacey Schwimmer -
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
Lamar Alexander -
'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley -
Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.
Mortimer Zuckerman -
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken