H. L. Mencken Quotes
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I got a big mouth.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.
