John Kendrick Bangs Quotes
What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these small businesses would have to close their doors.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
