H. L. Mencken Quotes

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Meaning
  • Saying

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Mom
  • Drama

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • War
  • Day

• My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Trump

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Age
  • Career
  • Man

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Up
  • Age
  • Child

• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • World
  • Reality
  • Environment

• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Love
  • Book
  • Reading

• There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Time
  • Money
  • Quality

• Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

  

  Aldo Gucci
  • Week
  • Manners
  • Elegance

• Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Write
  • Read
  • Listen

• If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Mind
  • Attention

• It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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