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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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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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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Exercise is labor without weariness.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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India is my motherland.
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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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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
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Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low?
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'The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.'
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Beauty is more than skin deep.
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
