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H. L. Mencken Quotes

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Man Speak You Country Paid

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

Character Yourself Fun Step Me You

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

Time Simple Painting Color Process

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Future Teacher Society Think More

I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Work Marriage People Doing Enjoy

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy.

Travis Bradberry

Time Quality Succeed Energy Help

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

Opportunity Reflection Best People

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

Martin Winterkorn

Group Certainty Porsche Integrated

I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I have no doubt that we will not lose the full faith and credit of the United States.

Michele Bachmann

Faith People World American Credit

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

Time Me Night Energy Rest You

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Good Yourself Feel Trying You Down

I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.

Culture Think You Down Heroes See

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

Life Love Enjoy Life I Am People

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