H. L. Mencken Quotes
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.H. L. Mencken
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali -
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul -
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez -
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman -
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
Gail O'Grady -
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
Larry Wilmore -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
Flume -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
Eavan Boland -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian -
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
E. L. Doctorow
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How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
Lao Tzu -
Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.
Adam McKay -
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
Angela Davis -
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.
Earl Hancock Ellis -
Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
Hans Vestberg -
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
H. L. Mencken