H. L. Mencken Quotes
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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I am a Zionist.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I want to win football games.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I think celebrities suck.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
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I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.
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I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
