H. L. Mencken Quotes
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
Ulysses S. Grant
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
Victoria Jackson
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
Halsey
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
Victoria Justice
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Rachel Maddow
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
Pat Summitt
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
W. Averell Harriman
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
Iain McGilchrist
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
Irvine Welsh
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
Zadie Smith
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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
Wayne Coyne
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Francesca Annis
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
Nas
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga
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A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
Zack Greinke
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It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
Umberto Boccioni
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Simplicity makes me happy.
Alicia Keys
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
Chitra Ganesh
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H. L. Mencken