H. L. Mencken Quotes
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.H. L. Mencken
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
J. R. Smith -
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis -
X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
Cameron Dallas -
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney -
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
Taylor Negron -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
Karin Fossum -
I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
Gary Dourdan -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
Tammy Blanchard -
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
Kate DiCamillo -
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Natasha Trethewey -
My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
Raney Aronson-Rath
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
Yasmin Mogahed -
I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
Delta Goodrem -
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells -
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
William Hazlitt -
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
H. L. Mencken