H. L. Mencken Quotes
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I still have a young attitude.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
