H. L. Mencken Quotes
No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.H. L. Mencken
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
Dan Aykroyd -
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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.
Barbara Demick -
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid -
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
Val Kilmer -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten -
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
Patrick Geddes -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell -
I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
Salar Kamangar -
I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
M. J. Rose
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The job as a coach is difficult.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
Taylour Paige -
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Patrick Stewart -
Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
Brown Campbell -
You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
Oscar Robertson -
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow
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This has certainly been a good working relationship. We'll see if we can't make something we're all proud of in the end.
J. M. Roberts -
Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.
Inbee Park -
Let us honor the blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls.
William J. Seymour -
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
Robert Frost -
No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.
H. L. Mencken