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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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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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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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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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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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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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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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
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It's nice to be able to, you know, for me to be able to personally do whatever the heck I feel like, whether I think that I can justify it exactly in business concerns or not.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
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The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
