John Kendrick Bangs Quotes
Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I'm curvy.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.
