H. L. Mencken Quotes

Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

H. L. Mencken

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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

Tamsin Greig
- May
- Home
- You
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

Ed Balls
- Game
- Myself
- Year
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

Valerie Plame
- Important
- Power
- Hope
I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Farrah Fawcett
- Think
- Hurt
- Successful
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

Gary Oldman
- Character
- Together
- Teach
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

Gale Anne Hurd
- Technology
- Dark
- Progress