H. L. Mencken Quotes

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

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• At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

  

  Karen Bender
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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

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• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

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• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  

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• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
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• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

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• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

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• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  

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• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

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• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
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• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
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• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
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• I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

  

  Emmy Rossum
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• I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

  

  Jason Dohring
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• It was great to be able to play a hero in 'The Magnificent Seven' in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.

  

  Lee Byung-hun
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• Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
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• The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Progress
  • Lies