H. L. Mencken Quotes
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.H. L. Mencken
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington -
I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
Lake Bell -
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Ornette Coleman -
It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
Dan Phillips -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
Camille Paglia -
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
Gary L. Francione -
Never put a sock in a toaster.
Eddie Izzard -
Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
Vanessa Marcil -
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
Zach Woods
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
J. D. Vance -
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
Walter Lang -
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
Omar Bongo -
Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash -
There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
Malcolm Mclaren
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan -
Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.
Frans Lanting -
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
Kate Grenville -
I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
Miranda Lambert -
History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
Austan Goolsbee -
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.
H. L. Mencken