H. L. Mencken Quotes
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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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.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
