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.H. L. Mencken
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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.
Adam McKay -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
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.
Abraham Verghese -
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Damien Hirst -
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.
Dan Stevens -
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
Carine Roitfeld -
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine Albright -
Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
Victor Cruz -
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.
Caio Fonseca
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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.
Nate Lowman -
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.
Karen Thompson Walker -
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales -
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.
Camille Paglia -
We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
Octavia Spencer -
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
Finn Wittrock
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
Immanuel Kant -
I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.
Michael Showalter -
I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth.
Adolfo Cambiaso -
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
Roberto Benigni -
Gradually, as more and more of our needs are met, we discover a crucial truth: that we are the most influential, effective and powerful person who can help us get what we need. The more we realize this, the more we can seek out, ask for and actually realize our needs.
Charles L. Whitfield -
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.
H. L. Mencken