H. L. Mencken Quotes
The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.
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Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
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If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.
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Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
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The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
