H. L. Mencken Quotes
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.
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The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.
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Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
