H. L. Mencken Quotes

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.

H. L. Mencken

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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.

  

  Zendaya
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  • Quality
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• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
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• It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

  

  Jack Cade
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• I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • Language
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• 'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

  

  Ramsey Clark
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  • Bus

• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Style
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• God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
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  • Wishes

• With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Great
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• I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • World
  • Imagination

• On days I'm not working, I don't wear a ton of other makeup, but if I have to look like I care, I'll use this By Terry Ombre Blackstar eye shadow stick in Frozen Quartz and Eyeko mascara.

  

  Keala Settle
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• Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Why

• In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Quality
  • King