H. L. Mencken Quotes
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.
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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
