H. L. Mencken Quotes
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
H. L. Mencken
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Oscar Peterson
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Ice T
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
Damien Chazelle
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
Aaron Yoo
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. Henry
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
Baz Luhrmann
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There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
Max Weinberg
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We have to be concerned about future obligations.
Olympia Snowe
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The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
H. L. Mencken