H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice -
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 -
I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Kate Bush -
The pace of television is very different from film.
Octavia Spencer -
Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
Famke Janssen -
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 -
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 -
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson -
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 -
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
Candy Crowley -
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 -
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
Tamara Mellon -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
Hampton Sides
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President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel.
James B. Stewart -
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
Irving Langmuir -
I worked as President of House of Waris for a year and a half, and Waris is one of my favorite people. He is not only a talented designer but also a warm and genuine person and a pleasure to work with.
Aslaug Magnusdottir -
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'
Bob Newhart -
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken