H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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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.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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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.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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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.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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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!
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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.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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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.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.
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I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
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I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.
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I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
