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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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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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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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.
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For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping
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We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.
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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.
