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.John Kendrick Bangs
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham Lincoln -
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
Jack Hanna -
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.
Gary Weiss -
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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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.
Ian MacKaye -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
Dale Evans -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
Kate Winslet -
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.
L. Neil Smith
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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.
Yaya Toure -
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence -
What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
Maika Monroe -
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.
Randy Houser -
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
Sam Smith -
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
H. P. Lovecraft
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun -
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
Ken Thompson -
That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
Lana Turner -
It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
DeRay Mckesson -
Well, I think my paintings are fast enough already...
Piet Mondrian -
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.
John Kendrick Bangs