H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
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Inspiration is the key to everything.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
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What does dating mean?
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Out of the air a voice without a face Proved by statistics that some cause was just In tones as dry and level as the place: No one was cheered and nothing was discussed...
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I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken.
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Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
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I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
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I am Quinn's father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves.
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For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.
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Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.
