H. L. Mencken Quotes
Sunday - A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.
Quotes to Explore
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
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I'm a horrible dancer, but I wanted to record songs that made me want to dance.
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Our children need our presence, not our presents.
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It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... but I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.
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Sunday - A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.
