H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
Felix Dennis
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Kate Bush
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The pace of television is very different from film.
Octavia Spencer
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
Famke Janssen
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
Nathan Deal
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
Karen McCarthy
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
Flume
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
Oliver Reed
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
Candy Crowley
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
Eckhart Tolle
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
Tamara Mellon
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
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Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
Ken Auletta
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Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.
Marie Rutkoski
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
Rachel McAdams
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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.
Victor LaValle
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I thought of my mother. Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
Scott Spencer
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken