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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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
