H. L. Mencken Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting to film in Snowden.
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The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
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My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
