H. L. Mencken Quotes
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I like making people laugh. That's fun for me.
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Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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Don't hate the media, become the media.
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I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
