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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

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Ocean Man Mind Search You Way

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Life Want Going Because Internal

When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it.

Life Daily Daily Life People Friends

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

Robin Coste Lewis

Good I Am Artist Through Curse Am

God has been with me in my whole career.

God Me Career Whole Been

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

Live I Am World Know Important Why

In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

Actor Up Front Every Episode Series

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Time Poetry Opinion Criticism Drama

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Good Best Football Me Team World

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

Good Karma Bad Back Wheel Out

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Sick Organism Any Fulfill Becomes

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

Confidence Experience You Say Until

When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.

Lindsey Buckingham

Work Painting Song Present Political

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