George Bancroft Quotes
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Quotes to Explore
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I was born with an evil face.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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I live in Paris, yet Monaco, where I spend a lot of time, holds a very special place in my heart.
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The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
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Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
