H. L. Mencken Quotes
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.
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Every man's actions belong to him.
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My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.
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There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.
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I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
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When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
