H. L. Mencken Quotes

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

H. L. Mencken

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moment

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Artist
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Accountability
  • Corrupt

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Talent

• You think you have mastered it the wallpaper pattern, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Reason is lost reasoning.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Lost

• What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Care
  • Courage
  • Enough

• I don't love all superhero films, but I love a great one.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Superhero

• A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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