H. L. Mencken Quotes
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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When I found myself riding in a lift with the great showman, I was too much too frightened even to look at him, much less get off at the same floor.
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Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.
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I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
