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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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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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'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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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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I never owned a suit until after the election. I got married in jeans and boots. My wife and I, when we went to prom, I was in a pair of jeans.
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The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.
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Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.
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It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
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On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss
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In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
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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.
