H. L. Mencken Quotes
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.
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But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
