H. L. Mencken Quotes
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
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I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.
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That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
