H. L. Mencken Quotes
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.H. L. Mencken
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
Zubin Mehta -
I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam Smith -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso -
Be who you are and be that well.
Saint Francis de Sales -
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Orson Welles
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
Sam Yagan -
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
Action Bronson -
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie -
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
Malala Yousafzai
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly -
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs -
Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
Karin Slaughter -
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike -
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
Idina Menzel -
What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
Kara Swisher -
I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.
America Ferrera -
You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.
Jared Harris -
I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.
Cecile Richards -
The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don't interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God's sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.
Emily Weiss -
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken