George Bancroft Quotes
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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The flip side of humiliation is pride.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
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Violent anger makes me physically ill.
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When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.
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A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one.
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What is called Nothingness is to be found only in time and in speech. In time it stands between the past and future and has no existence in the present; and thus in speech it is one of the things of which we say: They are not, or they are impossible.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.
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All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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I feel a great connection with my readers and would never want to disappoint them.
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I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
