H. L. Mencken Quotes
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.H. L. Mencken
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Gail Porter -
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Captain Beefheart -
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
Patrick deWitt
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
Jack Kemp -
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
Zhang Yimou -
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey -
Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali -
Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
Hal Sutton
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
Tahl Raz -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
Tamron Hall -
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
Warren Rudman
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
Taylor Lautner -
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Oscar Wilde -
My father wasn't the best role model to me.
Joe Torre -
I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
Kitty Kelley -
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.
H. L. Mencken