George Bancroft Quotes
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.
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It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.
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Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
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As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.
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In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
