H. L. Mencken Quotes
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'
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about rental car employees who ask if he wants the additional insurance
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I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.
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If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.
