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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Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.
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Potentially the single greatest private sector investment in cricket since the Kerry Packer revolution 28 years ago.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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I really don't like to read.
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When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
