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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The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.
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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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I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.
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My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
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The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
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I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
