H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.
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And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.
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The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.
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Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
