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H. L. Mencken Quotes

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Be True True Everyone Idea Admitted

I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.

Jennette McCurdy

Feel You Intention Down Way Become

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

Work Value Me Feel Doing Long

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

Work Best Day Important Give Your

I've got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who've had it. The point about good surgery is you can't see it. The important thing is not to go crazy - and not to go to a bad surgeon.

Suki Waterhouse

Good People Crazy You Bad Young

For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips.

Table Go Just Would Tips Really

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

Effort Me Control Blanket Fail Very

Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Life Father My Life Media Farm Go

My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

Good Home Police I Am Me Fashion

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Anthony Bourdain

Car Time Writing Kitchen Furniture

I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.

Woody Harrelson

Saying Think You Go Say Personal

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.

Heart Time People Me Energy Reading

'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.

Richard Attenborough

Best Details Better Flaws Understand

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