H. L. Mencken Quotes
Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.H. L. Mencken
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
Jack Black -
I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
Jack Osbourne -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
Zig Ziglar -
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
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.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
Kate Moss -
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh
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I believe clothing tell a story.
Rachel Roy -
When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
Jackie Chan -
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson -
I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
Malin Akerman -
Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon -
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
Lady Gaga
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It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good doctor in 'The Elephant Man'. He had been as believable a doctor as you can imagine, and he was good.
Jonathan Demme -
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
Saul Bellow -
Truscott: How dare you involve me in a situation for which no memo has been issued.
Joe Orton -
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.
Joan Didion -
For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.
George Osborne -
Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
H. L. Mencken