H. L. Mencken Quotes
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
