H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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This bikini made me a success.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
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It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion...
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Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
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I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
