H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
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I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.
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If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes. What looks good on one person might not look good on another body type. I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place, but it's all about embracing yourself and your body.
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
