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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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
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We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
