H. L. Mencken Quotes
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I find the business world hard.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko, Jadzia, O’Brien, and Julian, but hadn’t imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don’t do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians. They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro
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The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.
