H. L. Mencken Quotes

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

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• Of course I get hurt.

  

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• There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

  

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

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• Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

  

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• Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Free
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• I think twerking is overrated.

  

  Kate Upton
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• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

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• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
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• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
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• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

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• When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

  

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• If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.

  

  Allard K. Lowenstein
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• It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Present
  • Difficult
  • Journalist

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
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• I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

  

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  • Pink

• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Eye