H. L. Mencken Quotes

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.
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I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.
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I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.
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The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that.
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I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.