H. L. Mencken Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
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I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.
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Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
