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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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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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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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
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I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.
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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.
