H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Venus favors the bold.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
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The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
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If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
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I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
