H. L. Mencken Quotes
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.
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I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.
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The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
