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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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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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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It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.
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Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.
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There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
