H. L. Mencken Quotes
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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I don't read books.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
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I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.
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Love is never jealous. It's a connection. It's an energy. It's an embodiment.
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Bid us sigh on from day to day,And wish and wish the soul away,Till youth and genial years are flown,And all the life of life is gone.
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My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
