H. L. Mencken Quotes
The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
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…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
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Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
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I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.
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The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
