H. L. Mencken Quotes
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
Quotes to Explore
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The real war will never get in the books.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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I had no interest in high school besides art.
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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
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When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
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'But what am I to do?' cried the Prince.'What you feel you must,' said the Theel. 'That’s the only thing to do at any time.'
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For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.
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In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin, and I found ones in Vienna, Zurich, and London. I went to all of those places to audition. You were supposed to have two monologues, and I only had one.
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To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
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Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
