H. L. Mencken Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi -
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie -
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
Barton Gellman -
If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
Illeana Douglas -
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. Mark Felt -
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
Paris Hilton -
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Malala Yousafzai -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Ted Shackelford -
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao -
Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
Kapil Sibal -
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
Jacob Epstein -
My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
Ramon Rodriguez -
You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
Dan Quinn
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
Emil Ferris -
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
Walter Russell Mead -
I do actually sing; I love to sing.
Lauren Cohan -
One of the things I liked about the movie 'Minority Report' was they used a lot of futurists as consultants to really try to understand what the world really would be like in 50 years.
Adena Friedman -
And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
Arthur Miller -
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken