John Kendrick Bangs Quotes
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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It is true that poems and stories generally have only a single name attached to them where authorship is concerned but in many ways they are born of much more than any single individual. They evolve out of meetings of minds, the collective heartbeats of communities, and the shared journeys of similar souls.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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Every wishIs like a prayer-with God.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
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Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
