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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What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.
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That conversations both with the President and among senior advisors, including the First Lady, are protected by executive privilege.
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When I went into Fiddler, I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
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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.
