H. L. Mencken Quotes
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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It's so easy to look foolish online.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.
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My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for 'The Social Network.'
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This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
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There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
