H. L. Mencken Quotes
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.
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In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. (I believe lithographs to be colored marks printed on a ground – the paper and the measure of the ground and the marks are to be considered of equal importance). In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting.
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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
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Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.
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If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
