H. L. Mencken Quotes

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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This is one of the toughest, most complex pieces of legislation that we've tried to put together in our lifetime.
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I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.
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Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'
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It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.
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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.