H. L. Mencken Quotes
The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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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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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.
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Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
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On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there and it wasnt.
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The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.
