H. L. Mencken Quotes
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B. B. King -
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
Pat Robertson -
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
Aaron Paul -
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
Kate Bush -
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
Octavia E. Butler -
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
Oliver Tambo -
The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
Mae Jemison -
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
Zubin Mehta -
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin Coolidge -
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. Forster -
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
Abigail Breslin
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Sam Harris -
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai Lama -
I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
Carly Fiorina -
People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
Kapil Dev -
I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
Omari Hardwick -
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
Vince McMahon
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If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Eva Gabor -
I'm as awkward as it gets, dude, but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward
Christofer Drew -
The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.
Ed Benguiat -
Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.
Stewart Rahr -
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. Mencken