H. L. Mencken Quotes
The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I've learned never say never.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
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As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
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Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
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I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already an effect. Just like any other art of cultural expression can do that - books, films, photos, painting - it can bring people together who share certain ideals, who don't find their ideas expressed properly, or even expressed at all, in the mainstream media.
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The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
