H. L. Mencken Quotes
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
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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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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
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To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
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'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
