H. L. Mencken Quotes
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I like things simple.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.
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When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i's and crossing the t's when it comes to risk management.
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The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
