H. L. Mencken Quotes

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

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• I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

  

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• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

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• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

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• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

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• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

  

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• I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.

  

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• The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

  

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• I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

  

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• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

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• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

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• I'm not a Democrat.

  

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• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

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• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

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• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

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• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

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• I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?

  

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• At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

  

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• When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

  

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• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

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• I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.

  

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Heart
  • House