H. L. Mencken Quotes
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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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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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
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Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.
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Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.
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When you're younger, there aren't very many kid actors. It's a lot easier to get jobs.
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When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
