H. L. Mencken Quotes
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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I still have a young attitude.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
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Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
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I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
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The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
