H. L. Mencken Quotes
Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.H. L. Mencken
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch -
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
T. S. Kalyanaraman -
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen -
I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Abu Abbas -
Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Iris Chang
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
Ian Hacking -
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
Garth Ennis -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley -
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.
Mandy Moore
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed -
The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch -
I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
Harmony Korine -
It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.
Emily Yoffe -
I make work not to give answers but to question things.
Florentijn Hofman -
If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
Randall Jarrell -
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
Piers Anthony -
Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.
H. L. Mencken