John Kendrick Bangs Quotes
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
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I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.
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My mom is very close to me, and it has been really cool having a mom that's closer to my age because she can go out with me and stuff.
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If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.
