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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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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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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It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.
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Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds more effectively in private business and creating jobs than the government can.
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Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.
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She's stark raving mad!
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
