H. L. Mencken Quotes

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

H. L. Mencken

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• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Music
  • Hand
  • Emotions

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Done
  • Know
  • Always

• My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Detail

• People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Together
  • House
  • City

• You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Firsts
  • Depression

• A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • People
  • America
  • Action

• From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

  

  William Blum
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting

• There are a lot of bad people out there.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Bad People

• Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Fighting