H. L. Mencken Quotes
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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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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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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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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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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And when the physician said, 'Sir, you are an old man,' 'That happens,' replied Pausanias, 'because you never were my doctor.'
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
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I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of - it was the other creatures of the night.
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The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
