H. L. Mencken Quotes

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

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• I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

  

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

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• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
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• When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.

  

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• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

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• Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.

  

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• Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  

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• A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

  

  Larry McMurtry
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• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

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• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

  

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• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

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• Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

  

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• We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.

  

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• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

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• You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.

  

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• Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
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• There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic.

  

  Tyne Daly
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• Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

  

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• Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

  

  Bayazid Bastami
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• Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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