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H. L. Mencken Quotes

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Topics

Crazy Newspaper Ignorant More Making

I like to be productive - it's very hard for me to go on vacation because I just feel like I'm losing time.

Time Vacation Losing Me Feel Go

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Joan Armatrading

Free Way Always Written Unencumbered

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

John F. Kennedy

Man Destiny Problems Problem Beyond

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

Robert Rauschenberg

Good Time Yourself Sorry Feel You

Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

Moving Two Being Mobile Just Kids

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

Technology Me Important Weekends Use

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Talent Mergers Get Scale

In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.

Live Me Performance Loved Movies

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

Steven Van Zandt

Day Job Do The Right Thing Think You

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

Moment Trust People Believe Will

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Sports Down Play Tennis Just Soon

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Education Ignorance Foundation Vice

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