H. L. Mencken Quotes
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
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There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.
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Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.
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Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
