H. L. Mencken Quotes
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
Kaskade
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
iO Tillett Wright
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
Lapo Elkann
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
Rachel Bilson
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
Inga Muscio
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
Kate Moss
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
Waka Flocka Flame
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SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
Dan Maffei
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You have to open up on stage.
Karen O
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
Sam Walton
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Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.
Teju Cole
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There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.
Thomas Woods
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
T-Pain
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken
