H. L. Mencken Quotes
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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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.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.
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I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
