H. L. Mencken Quotes
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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People who stand in the way of where people are walking - I hate that.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
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When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
