H. L. Mencken Quotes
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
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... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
