H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.
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One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
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If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.