H. L. Mencken Quotes
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I get my ideas from listening from within.
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Have in readiness this saying of Solon, 'But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.'
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine.
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New times demand new measures and new men;The world advances, and in time outgrowsThe laws which in our father's times were best;And doubtless, after us, some purer schemeWill be shaped out by wiser men than we,Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
