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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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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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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I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
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I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
