George Bancroft Quotes
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
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The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
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I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
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I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
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Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.
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The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
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If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.
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I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
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I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'
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You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
