H. L. Mencken Quotes
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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All as before: against the dining-room windows Beats the scattered windswept snow, And I have not changed either, But a man came to me. I asked: 'What do you want?' He replied: 'To be with you in Hell.' I laughed: 'Oh, you'll foredoom Us both to disaster.'
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One of the biggest guys I worked with was Sean Connery. People like Sean, Michael Caine, Denzel Washington, they've been going for a long time, and not for nothing. They want to get this job right, and they realise the weight of responsibility on their shoulders.
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When you go for a vacation, you hit the usual spots, but staying in a country for over a month is a different experience altogether.
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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.
