H. L. Mencken Quotes

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

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• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  

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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

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• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

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• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

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• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

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• I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'

  

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• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

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• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

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• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

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• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

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• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

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• People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

  

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• When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.

  

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• I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

  

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• We want to keep creating the biggest impact we can in the cancer space by focuses on prevention, early detection, and psychosocial support.

  

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• When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.

  

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• If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

  

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• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  

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• Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

  

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• A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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