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H. L. Mencken Quotes

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Woman Mistake Love Is Goddess

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

Me Want Write Studio Movie

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

Robert Rodriguez

Work Family Love Home Wife You

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

Love Hate Reading Terrible Read

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Good Great Effort Happy Be Happy

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Jonathan Franzen

Man Child Parents People Me Think

My favorite record of all time is Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers.' I hold it as the standard - in terms of sonics, sequencing, and songs. It shows that making a complete record is important, rather than just making a single.

Chris Stapleton

Time Important Petty Single Hold

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Antonio Damasio

Body Feelings Changes Without Would

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

Leader Impact You Become Out Going

As an athlete in my sport, you always want to go to an Olympics.

You Go Want Athlete Always Olympics

The reality of this Obamacare provision is that young adults will be forced to subsidize healthcare costs for older, financially stable, working-age Americans. At a time when 20-somethings face underemployment, record school debt and less economic opportunity, it is unfair to saddle them with this burden.

Opportunity Time School Face Reality

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

Think Know Important Celebrity Freak

I try and act like I'm all there. But I'm not!

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