H. L. Mencken Quotes
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
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My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.
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I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.
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Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
