H. L. Mencken Quotes

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

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• One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

  

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• The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

  

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• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

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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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• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

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• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

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• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

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• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

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• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

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• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

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• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  

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• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

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• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

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• Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

  

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• I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

  

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• With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.

  

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• I am proud to join the many state legislators, governors, businessmen and hard-working Americans who have worked to build support and momentum for the idea of the Health Care Compact, and I am proud to introduce the common-sense bill for this sensible solution.

  

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• The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.

  

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• One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

  

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• Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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